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...Roger Ailes. Murdoch, the former Australian publishing magnate who launched the Fox television network and has a sizeable television presence in Europe, and partner MCI are fresh from winning an FCC bidding war for direct broadcast satellite television rights in the U.S. Ailes, the former media consultant to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush, resigned last week as president of NBC's successful cable network. "It's a logical place for Ailes to be," says TIME's Richard Zoglin, "especially if Murdoch is serious about creating what he says is a more conservative alternative to CNN. But a lot of this...
Though he may seem like a political neophyte, Forbes actually got his start early, when he and his Bedminster, New Jersey, neighbor Christie Todd (now the Governor of his home state) were chosen to present dolls to Pat Nixon for Tricia and Julie during the 1952 campaign. He used to hold mock elections for his stuffed animals, and could rattle off by heart the state voting patterns county by county...
...Nixon had Rose Mary Woods. It now looks as though the role of Embattled Loyal Retainer is sewn up, for Whitewater purposes. Huber has acted as an office manager for Mrs. Clinton for so long that Chelsea is said to regard her as a grandmother. It must pain her immensely that her 116-page discovery has renewed investigators' interest in the residential quarters of the White House and may help sustain the inquiry through the presidential-election season...
Fallows goes a bit far in skewering the press for becoming too querulous about official pronouncements. That habit began with the deceits of Lyndon Johnson about Vietnam and Richard Nixon about Cambodia and Watergate--and for good reason. But he is right that the effort to be tough often degenerates into being merely snarling and snide, with an elitist irony substituting for honest skepticism. Reporters earn their investigative stripes by chasing scandals and catching politicians in flip-flops, which divert attention from truly important policy issues that must be resolved. "The result is an arms race of 'attitude,' in which...
...ringing oratory during the Watergate hearings in 1974 and a keynote address that galvanized the 1976 Democratic National Convention. "My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total," she declared during one of the House Judiciary Committee hearings on whether to impeach Richard Nixon. "She had a voice that sounded like the voice of the Constitution itself," recalls TIME's Bonnie Angelo. "She was the voice of rectitude, especially during the Watergate hearings. Her summaries of Nixon wrongdoings were powerful statements of righteousness. She was Biblical in her delivery and unwavering in her principles." Elected...