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...good advertising. Author Joe McGinniss, 26, a former Philadelphia newspaperman, followed Nixon's electronic campaign for about six months. He makes the point that the candidate of 1968 was not all that different from the candidate of 1960. The difference was that in 1968 the man the public saw was the man the Nixon men wanted people to see: a television Nixon who was casual, relaxed, warm, concerned, and-above all-sincere...
...personally leaked stories to Drew Pearson. Richard Nixon has changed all that. He follows a methodical formula for the impartial treatment of members of the Washington press corps: he is equally remote from all of them. He grants no private interviews, and, until two weeks ago, had held no public news conference since the middle of June. Under orders and by inclination, Nixon's White House advisers are not much more communicative than, say, the average CIA spokesman...
...Angeles advertising firm to work on the campaign and after Nix-en's victory, moved his wife and two daughters to a colonial-style house in suburban Virginia. He sits in on many top-level meetings, but he has little, it any, say about what will be made public. That seems fine with him. "Nobody wants to know what Ron Ziegler thinks about anything," he says. "The worst thing a press secretary can ever do is shoot from the hip. I'd rather say, 'I'll check it out' " -is one of his frequent responses...
...House of Lords, protested that "Jack Profumo has reclaimed his reputation so totally . . . it is quite revolting that some stale old stories are being published." Last week, as the clamor intensified, a government watchdog agency banned a television commercial promoting the series on grounds that the memoirs offended public feeling...
Some of the criticism, of course, comes from Establishment friends of Profumo, who has been working hard at a social-welfare settlement in London's East End since resigning from public life. Class considerations aside, many in Britain simply feel that Profumo has earned the right to be let alone. Some also raised a broader question of the citizen's right to privacy, a right not guaranteed under British law. As politicians talked about such a statute, freewheeling Fleet Street winced. But Lord Devlin, retiring chairman of Britain's Press Council, told the newspapers that the issue...