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Says one Nixon staffer: "The idea is to cool it a little. The idea is to avoid anything that somebody can blame on the Administration, to dissipate some of the discord. But I don't detect any basically different approach that means anything terrifically significant-just a tone where the President would hope his leadership is followed...
What Sports Illustrated staffer Hugh Whall wrote in a fit of pique last year after Harvard's heavyweight crew refused once again to race in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta in favor of its four-mile event with Yale has been the sentiment of a number of crew writers and followers ever since Pennsylvania has become a threat to Harvard's dominance of the American college rowing scene...
Observes a White House staffer: "Everything is funneled through these two guys. Haldeman is not at all interested in policy, and Ehrlichman is. This explains how they manage to get along. Ehrlichman views himself as a broker, a sifter of ideas, rather than an advocate." But he has taken substantive positions: in favor of Presidential Counsellor Daniel Patrick Moynihan's plan for a minimum annual welfare income, in favor of the conservationists who successfully blocked a Miami jetport in the Florida Everglades. He is as critical of the liberal press as Spiro Agnew, and once told a reporter who said...
...much prefers spending three minutes reading a memo to hearing someone out in person for a quarter of an hour. Papers come down from the President with the scrawled notation: "Any comment? RMN." A neat red square is clipped to any urgent memo, any document seen by a key staffer is duly initialed, and everyone knows the deadlines for getting a note to Nixon. "If I have something ready by 2 p.m.," one aide says, "I know that the President will see it by that night...
That is when things are running smoothly. In a crisis, it is a different matter. When a staffer or Cabinet member has an overwhelming reason to see the President, Haldeman insists, they do. He says: "The Postmaster General got in without any trouble at all during the postal strike. Suppose Wally Hickel calls up at 2 a.m. and says there's been a disaster in oil pollution. He says, 'I've got to talk to the President.' He gets to talk to him." The whole staff system, Haldeman contends, "is set up to get the pertinent information in. It spends...