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...DIED. ROSE MARY WOODS, 87, doggedly loyal secretary to U.S. President Richard Nixon, who famously shared blame for an 18 1/2-minute gap in a tape recording of a conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff made three days after the Watergate break-in; in Alliance, Ohio. The recording was considered critical because it might have shown that Nixon knew about the break-in or its ensuing cover-up. Woods said that she may have erased part of the tape accidentally while reaching for her telephone, an improbable maneuver which fueled speculation about Nixon's possible complicity...
DIED. ROSE MARY WOODS, 87, doggedly loyal secretary to President Richard Nixon who famously took part of the blame for an 181/2-min. gap in a tape recording of a conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, made three days after the Watergate break-in; in Alliance, Ohio. Woods said that while transcribing the June 20, 1972, recording--which was considered critical because it might have shown that Nixon knew in advance about the break-in and was involved in a coverup--she could have erased part of the tape by accidentally hitting the erase key while reaching...
That's the position of John West, associate director of the Center for Science and Culture at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute. A nonpartisan but generally conservative think tank, the institute was founded in 1990 by George Gilder, a Nixon speechwriter turned technology evangelist (TIME in 1974 called him the U.S.'s "leading male-chauvinist-pig author"), and his Harvard roommate Bruce Chapman, director of the Census Bureau during the Reagan Administration...
...canny use of government professionals, some of whom show up so frequently they amount to an agit-doc rep company. Featured status goes to repentant Republicans: David Brock in ?The Hunting of the President,? former Rove campaign partner Joe Weaver in ?Bush?s Brain,? arms inspector Scott Ritter and Nixon counsel John Dean in ?Uncovered.? All but Weaver have chosen a very contemporary form of penance for their sins: they have written, and assiduously promoted, books on the venality of the current Republican-in-Chief...
...skill won the race and fueled a realignment of American politics or whether he was the lucky winner of a coin-toss election will last just as long as the debates among historians over whether Dwight Eisenhower had a "hidden-hand strategy" in dealing with political problems, Richard Nixon was at all redeemable and Reagan was an "amiable dunce." Democrats may conclude that they don't need to learn a thing, since 70,000 Ohioans changing their minds would have flipped the outcome and flooded the airwaves with commentary about the flamboyantly failed Bush presidency. It may be that...