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While recovering from a debilitating stroke -- suffered in part, says Julie, because her mother read Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of Nixon's fight for his presidency, The Final Days -- Pat Nixon was resting on the patio one afternoon in San Clemente, looking through the window into the house where her husband sat. "Watergate is the only crisis that ever got me down," she told her daughter. "And I know I will never live to see the vindication. The thing that's so sad is that I don't think there is a man living who has more...
...former rock-'n'-roll groupie and longtime drug abuser, Smith was reportedly adept at living off the money and drugs of others. Belushi had plenty of both. In his biography of the actor, Bob Woodward wrote that Belushi, as part of his movie contract, received a $2,500-a-week stipend, which he understood to be his drug allowance. Smith is believed to have been the last person to see the comedian alive after a five-day binge that ended with her injecting him with a series of speedballs, powerful mixtures of cocaine and heroin...
...Justice Department to consider prosecuting NBC for its report. Meanwhile, the Washington Post on Wednesday published another sensitive story on the Pelton case. The front-page article, however, had been abridged after numerous discussions with Casey and other Administration officials. The published story, written by Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward and Reporter Patrick E. Tyler, provided a relatively innocuous account of Pelton's encounters with Soviet agents. Removed were any technical details of the spying techniques that Pelton allegedly betrayed...
...course, is that many of the classified leaks he deplores come from the Government, including his own department. According to agency officials, Casey does not truly contemplate bringing suit against all five newspapers and magazines, but only cited them to Bradlee to underline his concern about publication of the Woodward piece. "It seems as if Bill Casey was shooting with an automatic weapon against the Washington Post and forgot to release the trigger," says an agency official. "It is not a CIA-vs.-the-press campaign...
...Woodward said that possible solutions would involve some kind of short-term remedy for the large insurance rate increases and possibly a ceiling on the amount of money a patient can sue for in a malpractice case...