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None of the books conclusively answers the lingering Watergate question: How could so many clever men around Nixon profess to believe him long after most of the press and public found his story incredible and his claims of protecting the presidency a self-serving fraud? Breslin, perhaps unfairly, contends that Texan Charles Alan Wright, Nixon's constitutional expert, simply learned too late that "when the client is a liar and you believe him, he takes you down with him." Osborne doubts that Nixon's third lawyer, St. Clair, was ever as naive about the President's guilt...
...about Mass Hall is, in the words of a Mather House tutor, that the administration "really is out to screw the students and faculty." The implication here is that somehow the administration can gain from squeezing students and faculty. Aside from the obvious response that Mass Hall actually does profess a desire to improve the education and quality of life of the Harvard undergraduate, there is also the fact that the administration is trying to balance a variety of goals, not all of which can be served totally. While I share the suspicion of many students that Harvard does...
...Lees can collect as many as 500 cans a day, which they sell for about $20 to a salvage dealer near their home in San Diego. But they profess not to be worried about the low monetary return. Says Clemert Lee: "Cleaning up America is better than sitting at home twiddling my thumbs...
...Farah Pahlavi, Express of Iran, notes that her husband is "interested in Iran's GNP." With what complementary problem does she profess to deal...
...mark of the desperate legal gamesmanship of the defendants in the trial that they have sometimes been pleased when something they profess to want has been denied them. Ehrlichman has subpoenaed Nixon, ostensibly to get him to confirm that Ehrlichman had only carried out presidential orders during the Watergate cover-up and had been led to believe that he was acting in the interest of national security. In reality, Ehrlichman's prospects are better if a witness he contends is vital to his defense cannot appear...