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...have time for that foolishness!" But Hoover kept sending unsolicited "personal and confidential" memos to the Truman White House on political matters, such as the claim that a Communist sympathizer was helping a certain Senator write a speech, that a sugar scandal might break and embarrass Democratic officials, that Newsweek was planning a foreign espionage story. There was no evidence that Truman was interested...
KENNEDY. The report confirmed that Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to trace Defense Department news leaks, in 1961 and 1962 authorized the wiretapping of several Washington journalists. They included Hanson Baldwin, military analyst for the New York Times, Baldwin's secretary, and Lloyd Norman, Newsweek 's Pentagon correspondent. More vaguely, the report says Robert Kennedy signed orders for taps on six other Americans, including "three Executive branch officials, a congressional staff member and two registered lobbying agents for foreign interests...
Peretz has taken the opportunity to express his position in editorials, arguing against Israel's returning to its pre-1967 war boundaries and, according to Newsweek, suggesting invasion as an option to protect U.S. oil interests in the Middle East...
...MONTHS AGO, the hype machine started to go to work on Bruce Springsteen, putting his pictures on the covers of Time and Newsweek, marketing "Born to Run" novelties and spinning his records on the turntables of AM stations everywhere. From all observations, the damage has been negligible: he played the Music Hall almost exactly a year ago, and neither his image nor music have changed appreciably since then. How long he can last is another story. While Springsteen is threatened with destruction by publicity, there is also another problem: the question of how long he can keep singing about...
...Saturday afternoon, both the White House and the Pentagon started getting press inquiries about rumors of high-level shifts: Newsweek began inquiring about the possibility that Kissinger was losing his NSC position. Quite truthfully, Press Secretary Ron Nessen turned back initial inquiries with the comment, "I haven't heard about that." Schlesinger relayed through spokesmen his belief that no plan was afoot to scuttle him, since he had just spent time with the President and the topic did not arise...