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...Nixon was guilty of inflated rhetoric, it was not in equating the Cambodian campaign with D-day and Stalingrad, which he did not in fact do, but in referring to Sevareid, Chancellor and Smith as "historians." The real historian is, of course, Nixon, whose understanding of events and ease in explaining them are grapes hung too high for your foxes to grasp...
Cooling It. Such minuses were not allowed to mar the fact of the President's extraordinary appearance on television. To sit down with Eric Sevareid of CBS, John Chancellor of NBC and Howard K. Smith of ABC, and plumb live the intricacies of foreign policy for an hour, bespoke presidential confidence -and courage. No tape editor could erase a presidential slip that might occur on the special set at a KABC studio in Hollywood, where the temperature had been lowered on request to 59° before air time. When the red lights of the TV cameras winked...
...Walls. One Army newscaster who complained off the air last fall about the network's handling of a major story was reassigned to cleaning records in the music library. A couple of weeks ago, on the air, an Air Force newscaster introducing a piece of analysis by Eric Sevareid wryly suggested that it was sufficiently after-the-fact to avoid "the wrath of Vice President Agnew." He found himself demoted to a production crew in Danang...
...which participants must act like members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Other possibilities: Generation Gap (gain points by making the adversary feel middle-aged and irrelevant), Silent Majority (you win by giving the best impression of Spiro Agnew, lose if you sound more like Eric Sevareid), Academic (up for snagging a federal consulting job, down if students smoke your cigars). There could even be Presidency, which no one could possibly win if he was once defeated for the office and then lost the governorship of California...
Thoughtful, deliberate Eric Sevareid probably comes closest to the liberal intellectualism that is anathema to Agnew. Yet, even he shares an Agnewesque distaste for "professional intellectuals. They tempt me to agree with Eric Hoffer, who said that intellectuals must never be given power because they want people to get down on their knees and learn to love what they really hate and hate what they really love...