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"My eyes went blooey and my back hurt." Reeves had occasionally talked with Ford, but never asked for a formal interview after he became President. "His reactions to questions in other interviews seemed pat," Reeves says. "I didn't think he would be of any value to me."
Reeves' methods have long been heterodox. He generally avoids the telephone ("You rarely get into digressions on the phone, and digressions are often the most useful"), and he does not join those colleagues who would cover up a public figure's private pecadilloes. (Ford Aide Robert Hartmann, he...
Reeves' pungent observations and equally pungent style do go down well with many colleagues, editors and even some critics who have panned the book.
In a disapproving review last week, Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. accused Reeves of exaggeration but nonetheless placed him "among the two or three sprightliest political writers in America."
In his scramble to success, Reeves has had to spread himself thin-too thin, according to Harper's editors, who did not renew his one-year arrangement with the magazine in 1972. But Reeves has recently been trying to reduce his commitments. Last May he left the TV job...