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...Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Richard L. Strout, 75, picked up his first congressional-press-gallery membership card in 1923. He has covered every President from Harding to Nixon, reported on the Teapot Dome and Watergate hearings and, on the side, written the New Republic's weekly column, TRB. Last week Strout was without his gallery card for the first time in 51 years. It was not renewed because he had refused to comply with a new rule handed down by the gallery's five-man governing board. To retain their accreditation, reporters must now promise not to accept...
...Strout, who has appeared as a moderator (at $75 a clip) on Voice of America broadcasts, told the board that he has no intention of abandoning radio: "I said that I thought the VGA was a pretty good thing. I told them that in my judgment, often fallible, they were making a mistake." The board did not agree. In response to the atmosphere created by Watergate, the rule was laid down to keep congressional reporters from being (or seeming to be) too cozy with business or Government. Says Hearst Correspondent Pat Sloyan, a retiring board member...
Other correspondents have appeared on VOA programs. Strout's defenders point out that the equipment and expenses of the press galleries are paid for by Congress, a situation that would seem to make the new rule an exercise in hairsplitting. Without his press card, Strout will be barred from the Capitol when the President is speaking and could in theory be prevented by Capitol guards from looking in on congressional committee hearings. But Strout does not think that will happen. After 51 years, he says, "I'm well known up there...
KENNETH E. STROUT Lexington, Mass...
...pundits who had been hailing the rising presidential prospects of New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller suddenly saw Vice President Nixon's future with new clarity. Wrote the Christian Science Monitor's Richard L. Strout: "It is hard to imagine a better springboard for a presidential candidacy...