Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were taken under consideration by a Justice Department committee chaired in turn by John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst. That committee drafted the original Criminal Code reform bill, designated S. 1400 in 1973. However, the original bill died in committee, and with good reason; the proposal contained some of the Nixon administration's most paranoid reflections. It recommended the death penalty for a shockingly wide range of crimes and a "National Security" act that would protect at executive discretion almost anything within government purview. Under that legislation, for example, Daniel Ellsberg would have been jailed. After S. 1400 died, Senators John...
Similar anxieties surfaced about the prospect of televising the House Judiciary Committee's hearings on the impeachment of Richard Nixon. Both commercial television and the committee members came away from that encounter looking rather nobler than usual. Commercial TV's record in public affairs, at least as a tactful witness if not as a commentator, has often been good and sometimes distinguished. The networks have risen to large occasions - the McCarthy hearings, assassinations, moon shots. Perhaps a prefigurement can be seen in the radio broadcasts of the Senate's Panama Canal debates. The broadcast of the debates...
...liberal Democrat who campaigned for Robert Kennedy and George McGovern, Hundley was as astonished as the rest of the Washington legal community when Mitchell hired him. But the two got along well. When Nixon's current Washington attorney, Herbert J. Miller, was unable to represent Nixon in the so-called Kissinger wiretap case, he passed the assignment along to Hundley. One of Hundley's six children protested: "Representing Mitchell was bad enough, but defending Nixon is embarrassing us at school." The dilemma was resolved after a few months when the Justice Department took over Nixon's defense...
...Washington Post strike again? "That's an iffy question. I'll duck that," says Post Publisher Katharine Graham. "In general, papers should find news as much as they can. If they find it, they should publish it." Has she told her Post editors not to pursue the Nixon book? "Heck, no," said Graham. Besides, as Post Ombudsman Charles Seib wrote only half-jokingly in his press commentary last week, the paper now has a reputation to uphold. Said he: "It is obvious what the Post must do if it is not to lose face...
Have newspapers really learned a lesson in Scranton, or will they all come running the next time a big book is up for sale? That time is here, and the book is Richard Nixon's memoirs, to be published in May by Grosset & Dunlap. The Times Syndicate also has Nixon in tow; and reports that it has signed some 50 publications in the U.S. and abroad. So far, none have backed out as a result of the Haldeman fiasco. Though security precautions are said to be even tighter than for, the Haldeman book, New York magazine last week disclosed...