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There was no sure way of assessing the rise and fall in Nixon's fortunes. Earlier, some aides had decided that the worst was over???but then came the story of how Nixon had bugged the White House, and his refusal to release the tapes badly undermined what was left of his credibility. Last week a number of Washington observers again felt that he had weathered the worst accusations against him, and that the recess would bring him time for recovery. As one of his aides remarked: "If you keep a fire under a boiler long enough, pretty soon...
...Cavett and the studio audience, show is over???but not for me. Gliding offstage, I felt powered as if by bottomless reservoir of adrenaline. The program had sped by much too fast. Smitten, I hungered to go back. Missed cues, memory lapses, technical distractions, the guest's curve balls, the occasional fumbling efforsts at easy conversation?all these had brought terrors, but they they were terrors shared by dare-devil drivers and talk-show hosts alike: they only heightened the thrill. I understood, too, the performer's need for approval. I accosted total strangers backstage, demanding of them line...
First the U.S. economists embraced Keynesianism, then the public accepted its tenets. Now even businessmen, traditionally hostile to Government's role in the economy, have been won over???not only because Keynesianism works but because Lyndon Johnson knows how to make it palatable. They have begun to take for granted that the Government will intervene to head off recession or choke off inflation, no longer think that deficit spending is immoral. Nor, in perhaps the greatest change of all, do they believe that Government will ever fully pay off its debt, any more than General Motors or IBM find...
...failure. Recalls a top State Department official: "The President was very firmly committed not to go to a summit meeting as long as he was forced to go under threat, or as long as there was no prospect that a summit meeting could show some results. He thought it over???and he decided to take the initiative...
...satisfied, was always practicing new tricks. He was one of the first to make a fetish of studying post-game movies. "I never realized how thorough those movie sessions are," said one Chicago sportswriter, "until I saw the Bears' staff screening a film. They ran one play over and over???30 times?without saying a word. Finally Assistant Coach Luke Johnsos said, 'It's the goddam guard,' and the meeting was over...