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...matter of Judge Clement Haynsworth's financial affairs. With Eisenhower's old dictum about being "clean as a hound's tooth" as a possible rationalization, the Administration helped nudge Abe Fortas off the Supreme Court. Now, because of the casual approach that Attorney General John Mitchell took, Nixon finds himself on the defensive over the Haynsworth nomination. Those who believe that a judge should be above suspicion may be forgiven if they view both men through one lens...
After his recent press conference declaration that antiwar outcries would not affect his policy, the President held two private meetings with Republican congressional and party leaders. The first took place at Camp David, where, amid Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, the participants lounged beside a figure-eight swimming pool and heard the President blame many of his Administration's problems on the Democratic-controlled Congress. The second meeting was a White House breakfast. The deliberations at such sessions almost always leak out; that is often the intention. The President's main message, echoing Lyndon Johnson, was that...
...Pierson took the stand this morning on the tenth day of the trial, the first test of the 1968 federal law forbidding crossing state lines to incite riots. The eight defendants, a cross-section of pacifist radical-Yippie leadership, are Abbie Hoffman, John Froines, Lee Weiner, Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, Bobby Seale, Tom Tayden, and Rubin...
...young man who identified himself as Marion 'Delgado took the microphone and urged the crowd to march toward the Drake Hotel, where he said Judge Julius J. Hoffman-who is presiding over the Chicago Eight conspiracy trial-was staying...
...Take your enemies and your allies alike one by one," says Ray Mungo in the collection's best essay. "Absolutely Exclusive to Asylum." That's a big change for Mungo, who once took on the whole administration of B. U. as editor of the B. U. News. who founded and then tried to bust up Liberation News Service, who for a long time was the ideal Radical Voice for your TV show or street corner rally. He's still a newsman, but the news has changed: "Strong personal generators can be had for under $35... there is free music...