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Hall followed the procedure, but did not obtain the Commission's written approval. After the Commission suggested changes in the window design, he ordered the windows from DeVac Co. in Minneapolis, Minn...
Nations which do not know how to get to the roots must settle for the branches. Thus, in nations that our textbooks call totalitarian, strict controls obtain concerning press and TV, intellectual discussion and public debate. These societies are like bad gardeners who spend whole days out in the hot sun pruning bushes, doing their best to cut down hopeless growths of undesired ideologies, because they do not yet have skillful means for poisoning the soil...
PRESIDENT NIXON should not be allowed to appoint his own special prosecutor. The dismissal of Archibald Cox '34 and Nixon's statement that he would not let a new prosecutor use the courts to obtain presidential papers relevant to the investigation demonstrate that a Nixon-appointed prosecutor would not have the independence necessary for a complete probe into executive misconduct--especially presidential wrong-doing...
...also approved. Since the Ervin committee's suit for the tapes had been thrown out of court by Sirica (on the narrow ground that the committee had not demonstrated a legal standing to bring the suit), Stennis thought the Nixon offer might be the best the Senate could obtain...
...announcement had contained one order aimed directly at Cox. "Though I have not wished to intrude upon the independence of the special prosecutor," Nixon said, "I have felt it necessary to direct him, as an employee of the Executive Branch, to make no further attempts by judicial process to obtain tapes, notes, or memoranda of presidential conversations...