Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, Schorr goes to elaborate pains to present a thorough, objective account of his years at CBS, his confrontation with the House Ethics Committee, the pressures put both on him and on the networks by the Nixon administration, and various other highlights of his career. Applying the same aggressive legwork that the distinguished him from most other television journalists, Schorr interviewed nearly all the characters who played a prominent role in "the story." These interviews revealed information previously unknown to Schorr, helping him better understand why certain decisions were made and certain events occurred...
...retention of pension rights despite his no contest plea, such cooperation with the government would furnish some limited evidence that Helms indeed recognizes the gravity of his misdeeds. Otherwise, the nation will be left with one lingering image of Richard Helms, that of a jaunty one-time Nixon hatchet man who views his nolo contendere cop-out as a "badge of honor," not the scarlet letter of "disgrace and shame" Judge Parker so eloquently described...
...powerless of our society, a way for them to make themselves heard in a world that does not pay them much heed. This is what has become of the Middle Americans who exercised such a powerful, if brief, hold on journalistic and political imaginations back in the Nixon era. They are no longer fomenting a counterrevolution; they are out there on the highways talking crazy to one another...
Several columnists found a way. Pat Buchanan, Nixon's favorite tough-guy speechwriter, reported jubilantly...
...Nixon thought these men a dangerous cabal of liberals and unleashed Spiro Agnew on them with accusations that are still widely believed. Actually, the literary pontiffs of Washington come in carefully calibrated ideologies these days and are so marketed. For example, the giant Gannett chain allows the editors of its 73 papers to pick their own political columnists and urges them to choose a broad spectrum...