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...White House tape transcripts would show the Oval Of ice's private preoccupation with heading off press disclosures and attempting to obtain favorable coverage. On Sept. 15, 1972, Nixon, John Dean and H.R. Haldeman discussed retaliating against the Post, perhaps by not renewing the company's broadcasting licenses. Said Nixon: "The Post is going to have damnable, damnable problems out of this one." (This passage was not released by the White House, but it turned up in a fuller transcript leaked by sources on the Judiciary Committee.) On Feb. 28 Nixon mentioned the pressure that Charles Colson had attempted...
...using a cheap, mobile and inexhaustible labor force. As Solzhenitsyn explains it: "Slave labor made no demands, could be transferred anywhere at any moment, was free of family ties, had no need for housing, schools or hospitals, and sometimes not even for kitchens or lavatories. The state could obtain such manpower only by swallowing up its sons...
...article "New Attack on Abortion" [May 27], the fact that the poor of Boston can no longer obtain abortions at Boston City Hospital except in cases of medical and psychiatric emergencies is the greatest news in a long time. Now many poor women will not have to live with the added burden of knowing that they have done away with the human life sheltered inside them...
...with all the swollen powers of the Executive Branch behind him, evidently saw no salt whatever in Archie Cox. When the president refused a Circuit Court order to hand over nine tapes to Judge John J. Sirica and ordered Cox "to make no further attempts by judicial process to obtain the tapes," he expected Cox would quietly resign as he had when Truman crossed...
...must have known on October 19 when he received Nixon's order that his job was finished regardless of which course he chose. If he obeyed he would never obtain the evidence for a successful prosecution. If he defied the president's fiat, he would surely be fired...