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...Ehrlichman and John N. Mitchell. When Clark MacGregor took over, the same friction persisted. Ehrlichman wanted a bigger voice in strategy, and his differences with MacGregor grew to the point that the two had to have it out, with Haldeman as mediator. Haldeman noted that Ehrlichman had made his point-and backed MacGregor. It was one of the rare times the two friends came down on different sides of a problem. As time went on, both seemed to feel the Government of the U.S. was synonymous with the presidency. Ehrlichman once told a reporter: "The President is the Government...
...such fighting was merely meant as a reminder by the Communists that they were still in the contest after months of quiescence, it was a costly one-even if the estimate of 6,500 Communist dead proves exaggerated. The question remained as to whether Hanoi had finished making its point-and testing Nixon's resolve-or whether it was just beginning an even bloodier trial than the all-encompassing Tet offensive of a year ago. No one, in Washington or in Saigon, disputes the fact that the Communists have the strength to launch such a drive-if they...
...editorial in the Boston psychedelic newspaper Avatar was to the point-and not all that far from the truth. Methedrine, a powerful amphetamine known to hippies as "speed," is fast becoming one of the freakiest and most dangerous ways of turning on in the drug users' pharmacopoeia...
...roar, the first visitors burst in. Watching them swarm over the grounds, one official, who had spent four exhausting years building Expo 67, said quietly: "I get the feeling that it isn't ours any more." But that, as he and millions of Canadians well knew, was the point-and the pride-of the imaginative new world they had built along the riverbanks of Montreal...
This month the Point's Board of Visitors, which is headed by Purdue President Frederick L. Hovde, released its annual report on the academy, praising its current trends. Hovde contends that only a few top U.S. universities offer better undergraduate instruction than the Point, which boasts an "outstanding young teaching faculty." He also believes that the standards of West Point-and those of its sister service academies-give the U.S. "an officer corps of personal and professional integrity not equaled anywhere else in the world...