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...long one of Nixon's cruelest antagonists, observed the traditional honeymoon accorded new Presidents by giving the man a decent shave. Nixon hardly reciprocated. He installed an arrogant press secretary who treated the press shabbily. He dispatched Spiro Agnew and other sappers to harass the enemy. Aides like Clay Whitehead and Charles Colson sought to stifle network commentary as unfair...
After years of kicking public television around as intolerably liberal and Eastern-oriented, the Nixon Administration seemed ready to settle its long war with the Public Broadcasting System. If public television would stop trying to be "a fourth network," said Clay Whitehead, 35, the President's chief television adviser, the White House would press for the long-term federal financing that PBS officials felt was needed as insulation from political pressure...
...Whitehead seems unable to hold up his end of the deal. As reports filtering out of the White House have it, President Nixon "flatly rejected" a Whitehead-drafted bill that would have put federal support of public TV on a five-year basis and increased it from $60 million a year as of July 1 to $100 million by 1980. In a fit of pique at the proposal, Nixon left word as he set off for the Middle East that he wanted to cut rather than raise PBS funding and, above all, keep it on the short leash of year...
Nixon's switch deeply embarrassed Whitehead, who had planned to leave the White House after sealing the PBS deal. Whitehead personally leaked the story of Nixon's turnabout, evidently in hopes of forcing his boss to reconsider. But "it will take a miracle to turn him around," swears one Nixon aide. "He does not like public television, and probably never will...
...string quartet. He and they project the internal verity of The Four some as a kind of aggressive mating dance that speaks to the residual Neanderthal in all of us. Women's Libbers may well loathe it, but then the dramatist's task - and E.A. Whitehead gives every evidence of knowing it - is not to proselytize but to reveal. ·T.E.K...