Word: press
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RICHARD NIXON'S White House is a controlled, antiseptic place, not unlike the upper tier of a giant corporation. It is staffed by briskly busy young men whose discreet, deliberate, disciplined manner accurately reflects the image of the Boss. The President is seldom seen by the press. The "Beaver Patrol"-the title given to the assistants of Presidential Aide H. R. Haldeman-scurry around with the Nixon orders and the memos signed RN. Working in the oval office, the Lincoln Room, or a new hideaway in the Executive Office Building, Nixon keeps ceremony to a bare minimum and makes...
...N.L.F. repeated their demands for unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. and "satellite" troops in South Viet Nam, which the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge bluntly rejected. But there was at least a rare moment of light relief. Thanh Le, the chief Hanoi spokesman, complained at a press briefing that Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky want to keep U.S. troops in South Viet Nam so that they can continue to get rich on traffic in opium and cinnamon. Cinnamon? "Ah," Le explained, "South Viet Nam's cinnamon is the finest in the world, and when mixed properly...
...press conference: "We have had a lot of dishonest newspapermen in this town. We still have. I could spit on some from here...
Miss Gingras wrote some sample chapters but quit, evidently because Mrs. Gallagher found her too sympathetic to Jackie. She was replaced by Frances Spatz Leighton. According to press reports, Mrs. Leighton sent a memo to a New York literary agent last November, calling the Gallagher information "the hottest property currently in the U.S.A. and possibly the world." She added confidently: "You needn't waste your time with any publisher who doesn't see this as earning several millions...
...catch-up threatens to turn into an inflationary game of leapfrog. The 49% increase achieved by Lorain construction workers was intended to bring their pay and benefits by next summer up to levels prevailing in nearby Cleveland. But Cleveland building unionists, seeking to restore their primacy, now vow to press for a still larger raise in negotiations next spring...