The U.S. pressoften accused of nitpicking and verbal overkillconfronted a remarkable opportunity, a story in which verbal overkill was virtually impossible. The transcripts of the presidential conversations of Watergate, released by the White House around 2:30 p.m. last Tuesday, were almost half as long as War and Peace. The more of this mass of material that could be got to the public, the fairer and more useful the press coverage would be, and the better prepared the nation would be to judge Richard M. Nixon.
Murine and Candy Bars. Newsmen found the hardest job...
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