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...book and the various loans to associates, the Judiciary Committee focused on larger questions, stretching but by no means snapping Rockefeller's capacity to respond. The committee's concern was, fundamentally, the possibility of unceasing conflict of interest if Rockefeller should become President. With a kind of waspish persistence that the Senators had not employed, Democrat Don Edwards wanted to know how Rocky could not avoid making decisions that would affect his own or his family's holdings...
...other Nixon defenders to lose were Indiana's David Dennis and Iowa's Wiley Mayne. The waspish Dennis' legalistic fight against impeachment seemed a big factor in his loss, since he had defeated the winner, Ball State University Political Science Professor Philip R. Sharp, twice before, and the area had not gone Democratic since 1958. The articulate Mayne had similarly beaten his opponent, Millionaire Manufacturer Berkley Bedell...
...Richard Nixon may not listen to Dr. Tkach, but he'll certainly take advice from Dr. Miller." That waspish Washington gibe reflected the cynicism, perhaps unfair, that greeted the news that this week the ex-President will finally enter a hospital for treatment of his thrombophlebitis. Dr. Walter Tkach, of course, is the former White House physician who two weeks ago, on a flying trip to California, had no luck at all in persuading Nixon to go into a hospital. Tkach even quoted his patient as saying that he feared he would die if he did so. "Dr." Miller...
...struck son of a Rumanian Jewish immigrant and chucked a law career in 1934 when the New York Post finally bent to years of entreaties and made him a columnist (at $50 a week). His refusal to monger scandal earned him the trust that the famous withheld from more waspish types like Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen. On George Bernard Shaw's 90th birthday, he granted Lyons an exclusive interview. Ernest Hemingway's wife Mary phoned Lyons with the first word that her husband was dead. The Trumans entertained him during their last days at the White House...
Eager to talk about his presidency, Richard Nixon last week took the unusual step of inviting Columnist James J. Kilpatrick of the Washington Star-News Syndicate to drop by the Oval Office. A Virginia conservative with a waspish wit, Kilpatrick has supported Nixon for years, although he did admit to feeling "shame, embarrassment, disgust, chagrin" after reading the full text of the White House tapes. The interview turned into a rambling, often self-serving monologue that lasted 80 minutes. The President's main points...