Word: transcriptions
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Frost began to read a rollcall of Nixon's transcript statements about the money to be paid E. Howard Hunt for concealing the role of CREEP in the Watergate burglary--"One. 'You could get a million dollars and you could get it in cash. I know where it could be gotten' Two. 'Your major guy to keep under control is Hunt?'" And so on, up to number 14: "Would you agree that this is a buy-time thing? You'd better damn well get that thing done, but fast' 15: 'Now who's going to talk to him, Colson...
...fact, Nixon has never seen this transcript. (After the session, he asked his aides: "What was that tape? I'm sure I never heard that tape before. Find out about that tape." They immediately tried to locate a transcript in Washington.) The two Colson tapes, of course, contradict Nixon's assertion that he first learned of the cover-up on March 21. They unsettle Nixon...
...Michael Curley was informed that Endicott Peabody Saltonstall was appointed District Attorney of Middlesex Country to replace a politician who resigned in disgrace, Saltonstall says that the Mayor asked, "What? All three of them?" After Saltonstall was elected to the State House, a friend sent him to the Boston Transcript in search of some good free press. Saltonstall was told to see Lodge, who was then a young reporter. But when Saltonstall said he wasn't going to hold any rallies or make any speeches, Lodge threw up his hands and said "How do you expect me to give...
Third, the relative transcript proposal would put an end to significant attempts at educational reform begun in the last decade. The notion of courses which are selfpaced or use contract grading, for example, which allows for student evaluation according to self-determined set criteria will be downgraded in importance because graduate and professional schools will focus their attention on courses which were graded relatively. Faculty will probably be forced into a grading-on-the-curve system, rather than one which is realistically geared to what students actually learn in a course...
...these reasons we feel that relative transcripts will be detrimental to the academic environment at any college or university, whether it be Berkeley, Harvard or elsewhere. The relative transcript proposal will mean increased competition, problems for graduates when competing for jobs or continuing their education, and an obstacle to any serious attempts at educational innovation. Steve Schirle Academic Affairs Vice President Associated Students, University of California