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Watergate was not brought up during that meeting, but it doubtless was uppermost in the President's mind. For a large part of the week, he secluded himself in the Executive Office Building, pondering his next move. One night, accompanied by a White House doctor and a military aide, he cruised the Potomac for an hour and a half aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia. On another night he dined aboard the Sequoia with Wife Pat, Daughter Julie and her husband David Eisenhower. As Julie later recalled in a press conference with David, the President "said he would take this constitutionally...
...million South Africans who went to the polls in parliamentary elections last week were all white, but uppermost in their minds were the 18,750,000 nonwhite South Africans who cannot vote. Prime Minister John Vorster, 58, called the elections 18 months ahead of schedule to seek a mandate to pursue the racial policy that Afrikaners call kragdadigheid (ironfistedness), which has been coming under increasing fire from verligte (enlightened) South Africans. After the ballots were counted, the sentiment was clear: five more years of harsh segregation...
...private-industry collaborator. CER Geonuclear Corp. of Las Vegas, began test drilling at the site after the explosions, they made an embarrassing discovery. The blasts had apparently created three separate gas-filled caverns instead of one. Thus the amount of gas that flowed through the hole drilled into the uppermost cavern was disappointingly small...
During two grueling months of campaigning at factory gates and mine portals, the candidates concentrated on local issues like jobs and fuel shortages. These problems were clearly uppermost in the minds of voters in the gritty, economically troubled district, which in recent years has lost population. Yet Watergate was never far from the surface. Murtha spoke of the Administration's "crisis of credibility" and adopted as his slogan, "One honest man can make a difference." Sensing that Watergate might tip the balance against his "promotion," Fox attacked the non-local press. "The national news media brought Watergate into this...
...erased 18 minutes of tape [Dec. 10]. I have been an executive secretary for 20 years, have transcribed from many different kinds of recording machines, and cannot, in all good conscience, believe her statement that she pressed the wrong button. When working on a transcribing machine, you always have uppermost in your mind that you will press the right button because the recorded word is so very important-more so in her case than any other...