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...covers later, Newsweek has shattered the sales record of the Singles issue with a cover featuring . . . three pictures of a dejected-looking Richard Nixon. That cover, which ran last week, was promotion for the first installment of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's "The Final Days," an account of Nixon's activities as he fell from power, if not exactly grace. The second and last installment appears this week, and it is much like the first: compelling, gossip-laden, well-assembled, badly-written (if only Gay Talese could have purchased their notes), and, because the information confirms everything people suspected...
...scenes Woodward and Bernstein sketch are by now legend, cackled over everywhere: Nixon praying on his knees with Kissinger, then pounding the carpet and sobbing; Pat Nixon spurning her husband's sexual advances- for 12 years; Nixon walking the White House halls at night, talking to portraits of former presidents...
...Woodward and Bernstein took heavy flak last week for writing as they did about such things. The critics seem divided into two camps: readers who think Nixon's privacy was invaded, and reporters and editors who think it unethical to include dialogue that Woodward and Bernstein neither heard nor attributed (such as the Nixon-Kissinger exchanges...
...first criticism argues that evidence of a president's insanity is privileged information. Undoubtedly its strongest supporters are those who protested, as Woodward and Bernstein were unraveling the Watergate scandal three years ago, that it was improper to ask about a president's criminality...
...election, demonstrators carried placards that focused almost exclusively on the pardon. DOES NIXON DRIVE A FORD? asked one. BEG YOUR PARDON, said another. NIXON'S GHOST IN THE WHITE HOUSE, read a third. One Ford aide found some consolation in the timing of the Woodward-Bernstein book. "At least it's coming out now with quite a few months to die down and be forgotten, " he said. That could prove to be just wishful thinking...