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With seven minutes left in the fourth quarter, Holy Cross had a first down on the Harvard six-yd. line, but the Crimson defense held fast. On the first play, linebacker James Mueller stopped Crusader running back Sanford McMurtry at the line of scrimmage. On the next play, Cox hit McMurtry for a loss of four yards on an option lateral pass from the quarterback. Clapacs stung Holy Cross quarterback Tom Heffernan for a loss of six on third down, and Jepson's fourth-down attempt for a field goal was wide to the right...
...meeting in New York City in late July, Sanford broached the subject to Nixon. Duke would provide the land; friends of the ex-President would raise the money; and the mountain of documents, as mandated by federal law, would be tended by punctilious national archivists. Back in Durham, Sanford quietly lobbied for the proposal among top university administrators. Six days after the New York meeting, Nixon's attorney Stan Mortenson turned up at Duke, conveying a sense of "urgency" and asking whether there was any opposition...
There was, but it had not yet surfaced. Students and faculty were on vacation. On Aug. 18, when Sanford sent a letter explaining the proposal to 65,000 Duke alumni, a terrible uproar arose. Professors, pro and con, outdid themselves with historical allusions. The Nixon Library was likened to a Trojan horse ("I fear Government officials bearing gifts") and an archival "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" ("We will not possess it. It will possess us"). Wits wondered if Duke could call it the Watergate Memorial Library. On Aug. 19 Trustee Emeritus Charles Murphy, a Washington lawyer who helped raise money...
Author and Literary Critic Edwin H. Cady spoke for the library. The opponents, he suggested, were viewing the issue in too narrow a time frame. Said Sanford, echoing Cady: "The opposition of the moment will be overcome by the long-range benefit to scholarship, and that's what a university is all about...