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...match, however, and the President's first moves this week suggest that he will now try for a somewhat more loose and relaxed staff around him. This would be good for Nixon and for the country. If Richard Nixon were as jovial and gregarious as, say, William Howard Taft, he might have needed a Haldeman ("I'm Nixon's s.o.b.") to protect him from his own openness. That is not his problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Good Uses of the Watergate Affair | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

When the last U.S. military man has left Viet Nam, Camp Alpha will be turned over to the U.S. embassy. Its commander, Captain George Parrott of Taft, Calif., apparently will be that last man. He is perplexed about one final detail: "We haven't decided who will process my papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cease-fire: The Quiet Exit | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...President, Managing Editor, Business Manager, and printers knew that the patriarch of the Augustan Age of Harvard was stepping down until the extra hit the streets. The paper also had the best word the next year on the progress of Eliot's internal struggle over whether to accept Taft's offer of appointment to the Court of St. James. Eliot stayed in Cambridge, and The Crimson had the news ahead of the Boston papers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Gathers Funds for a New Home | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...great success in getting it enacted. Without asking Congress, he intervened to protect the Panama Canal Zone from Colombian forces, boasting later: "I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on, the Canal Zone does too." Yet when his successor, President Taft, had the temerity to have a bill drafted and presented to Congress, House Democrats haughtily objected to the notion that they should consider any legislation "drawn at the instance and aid of the President and declared to be the President's bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Crack in the Constitution | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...based in Los Angeles, announced that he was supporting the President for reelection. His decision sent shock waves through the already demoralized Democratic Party, since Klein has considerable clout with other Jews. "I used to have trouble finding any supporters when I walked into the Hillcrest Country Club," says Taft Schreiber, executive vice president of show-biz conglomerate MCA and a major Nixon fund raiser. "Now it's like everyone has had a revelation. People come rushing up to me and say: 'I just want to tell you how I'm going to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VOTERS: The Jewish Swing to Nixon | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

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