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Despite whatever inherent humor the profile might have, Boudin and his friends weren't exactly left in stitches after The New York Times decided to publish it in full last Friday with no explanation of its contents, no disclaimer about the profile's accuracy and with no attempt to put the Hunt memo in any historical context. In fact, Boudin thinks that The Times--inadvertently, no doubt--has succeeded where Hunt, John Ehrlichman and Charles Colson have failed: spreading false, irrational, inflamatory rhetoric about him in the mass-circulation media...
Jones says he decided to publish the memorandum because it was "illustrative of the type of activity Mr. Colson was engaged in." He goes on to say, "We tried to make it clear that the profile was a document put out by the Judiciary Committee to illustrate Colson's activity, that it was an article about Colson and not Boudin, but maybe we didn't make that as clear as we might have...
...stoop to the pernicious tactics of the red scare. The memo is evidence of a certain sickness of mind and of a cynicism that Nixon has based his entire career on. Because the memo is all of those things, The Times had a right and an obligation to publish...
...Beecher had it easy as a poet. He became a printer in order to publish his own rejected verses. These poems may lack finish; they do not lack authority. "Strength," as Beecher himself points out, "is a matter of the made-up mind." Now Visiting Scholar at Duke, he is at work on his autobiography. It should be worth anticipating. A lover of American character-the last man who would still dare speak for the People-Beecher is a character himself, perhaps his own best poem...
Parkhurst first sent flyers to truckstops, asking truckers to respond with their ideas for a new magazine. He intended to publish something more serious and businesslike than the "gossip sheets" that had been around previously...