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...Schecter has his own private talks with his old professor onoccasion, but he naturally had no hint in advance of Kis singer's dramatic trip to China. Like the other correspondents in the pressroom of the San Clemente Inn, he could only speculate about what the President would say when the speech was announced. Schecter flew by helicopter to the Burbank television studio where the President spoke, and was waiting outside when Nixon posed briefly for photographers. The talk turned to dinner, and Schecter suggested a Chinese restaurant. "That's an idea," said the President. Perino...
Attorney General John Mitchell, who was standing at Nixon's side, instantly recognized Nixon's error. "This has got to be clarified," he told Presidential Aide John Ehrlichman immediately afterward. Unhappily, what ensued was a series of errors compounded by instant communications. Startled reporters dashed to the pressroom, and within minutes, the bulletins were moving across the land. The statement was filmed and broadcast later on network television, with a clarification appended...
...White House, the key figures around the President are Staff Chief H.R. (Bob) Haldeman, Domestic Affairs Aide John Ehrlichman and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. Because of their ancestry?and their closemouthed habits?the Teutonic trio is now known as "the Berlin Wall" in the White House pressroom. One Administration official calls them "all the king's Krauts"; another speaks of "the throne nursers." Kissinger refers to the other two as "the Praetorian Guard," and Haldeman and Ehrlichman are widely called "Von Haldeman" and "Von Ehrlichman"?or simply "the Germans." The nicknames are used by officials inside the White...
...atmosphere is so ominous that the News now presents a fortress face to its public. Windows in the pressroom have been sealed off by brick and steel...
...minutes deciding Sirhan's fate. "I know he premeditated the murder with malice," said Broomis, "but I still thought the death penalty was too harsh." Four formal ballots were taken, but life imprisonment never received more than three votes. Finally, unanimity was achieved. George A. Stitzel, a pressroom foreman for the Los Angeles Times, reported later: "One item that was very important was the idea that we should stand behind our laws...