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Once again Gerald Ford found himself obliged to defend his family's candor. This time the reason was the frank admission by his middle son Jack, 23, during an interview with the Portland Oregonian, that he has smoked marijuana. While careful to note that he "disapproved, " President Ford in his press conference last week insisted that he found his son's honesty a "very fine trait. "TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo filed this report...
Among the other papers that came out against Nixon at midweek were the San Francisco Chronicle, the Portland Oregonian, the New Orleans Times-Picayune & the Dallas Times-Herald. The Dallas Morning News also deserted him, but not until the very last day of Nixon's presidency. Its confidence in the former President, said the Morning News at week's end, had been "misplaced...
...seemed conservative. In addition to full serializations in the New York Times, Washington Post and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one-shot Sunday supplements were scheduled in many papers, including the Los Angeles Times, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the combined edition of the Atlanta Constitution and Journal. The Portland Oregonian readied a 44-page supplement for sale this week (at $1 a copy). Contrary to expectation, papers that have supported the President seemed as eager to practice full disclosure as those that have attacked him. The Wall Street Journal showed the split that often rends its front-page staff from...
...loyalists in this city (pop. 390,000), such as President John Howard, 51, of Lewis and Clark College, who says of the press and Congress: "They are like sharks. When they smell blood, they go mad." Another is J. Richard Nokes, 58, managing editor of the Oregonian, who declares: "A lynch-mob atmosphere has developed in the Washington press corps and in Congress. Now it has spread through the country." But majority sentiment in Portland is illustrated by the fact that Nokes' own newspaper receives 40 times as many anti-Nixon letters as pro-Nixon; one family alone wrote...
...militants, welfare chiselers and the campus radicals and George S. McGovern desired. In that mood it was possible to justify means of opposition to the hostile encroachment of hated perceptions which under ordinary circumstances might be avoided." Quarreling with his own paper's critical stance on Watergate, Portland Oregonian Publisher Robert C. Notson painted past antiwar demonstrations as an apocalyptic threat to the country and the President's safety. "This then," Notson wrote, "was the context" for the Watergate bugging...