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...hand. Says one participant: "A certain dynamism took over. One party became very harsh, and the other side then said, 'All right, we'll do the same thing.' " Of the first dozen names submitted, the Democrats reportedly agreed to five, the Republicans to just one: James Wieghart, national political correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspapers and former editor of the New York Daily News. After rejecting another group proposed by the League, each campaign countered with suggested names: some were rejected by the other side and some by the League, which wanted...
...House aides said that for the first time in the campaign, the mood in the White House was tense. Given the right to veto reporters suggested by the League of Women Voters as panel questioners, the two sides rejected almost 100 before settling on Diane Sawyer of CBS, James Wieghart of Scripps-Howard News Service and Fred Barnes of the Baltimore...
Breslin gleefully renewed the attack the next day, demanding a 5% commission from the News for inducing the P.B.A. to take out an ad. News Editor James Wieghart said no, and made it clear that he did not endorse the columns. Said Wieghart: "You have to give columnists leeway, but if I were Breslin, I would be embarrassed...
...other cards, Carter got less charity. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, no fans of the President, rushed to judgment: "Jimmy Carter, the miracle worker of 1976 is now marked by critics as the political incompetent of 1977 " The New York Daily News's James Wieghart saw a "concern bordering on panic ... friends and advisers feel his presidency hangs in the balance." When the polls at last did begin to show a slip in Carter's popularity, how could any Jeremiah make his alarms more alarmist...
Some journalists share that opinion. "I don't think this is like Watergate at all, and yet the coverage is of Watergate proportions," says James Wieghart, Washington bureau chief and columnist for the New York Daily News. Columnist George Will theorized that Washington reporters are feeling guilty about having destroyed mostly Republicans lately, and that Lance presents "the first opportunity for the press to demonstrate that it also cares when Democrats fail to measure up." A few editors have observed that in the absence of any other compelling news out of somnolent Washington, Lance was receiving more than...
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