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...others wallow in Watergate. We're going to do our job." He dismissed all talk of his possible resignation as "just plain poppycock?we're going to stay on this job." While doctors were urging him to slow down, he said that he was going to work "at full tilt all the way. No one in this great office at this time in the world's history can slow down...
...national security really damaged by the disclosure in 1971 that Richard Nixon disliked Indira Gandhi, and that his Government had decided to "tilt" in the direction of Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani war of that year...
INDIA-PAKISTAN CONFLICT. Syndicated Columnist Jack Anderson published during December of 1971 some nearly verbatim reports of meetings of the Washington Special Action Group (WASAG) on the fighting in East Pakistan. He quoted WASAG Chairman Kissinger as saying that President Nixon wanted to "tilt" toward Pakistan. Administration officials were both furious and embarrassed that such secret discussions had become public knowledge. But neither the Indians nor their supporters in Congress were surprised by revelations of a pro-Pakistan bias in the White House...
...both agencies under closer congressional scrutiny. The likely result will be a curtailment of their activities and of White House control. Balancing the priorities of individual liberties and national security has always posed a problem for free nations, but the Watergate scandal suggests the scale is now out of tilt. Indeed, the entire internal and external security apparatus of the United States seems due for review...
Textile manufacturers, who only a short time ago had substantial idle capacity, are going full tilt. Says Donald Comer Jr., of Avondale Mills in Sylacauga, Ala.: "We are using our machines 24 hours a day in three shifts." The auto industry is also racing flat out, but its dealers' stockpiles are nonetheless dwindling. Car makers like to keep about a 60-day supply of cars in transit or on dealers' lots. Now the supply covers sales for only 48 days...