A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 15, 1969

AT the White House last week to report on this week's cover story, Correspondent Simmons Fentress was struck by an unusual degree of camaraderie between newsmen and the normally businesslike presidential aides. "The reporters," says Fentress, "were all talking about their internal time clocks being out of phase, and the sources were discussing, their stomach troubles." No wonder Everyone had just returned from twelve days of traveling 24,500 miles and traversing 24 time zones during President Nixon's whirlwind tour of Asia plus Rumania.

Nor, from TIME'S standpoint, was there much rest for the weary. Fentress had hardly touched down in Washington when...

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