The Administration: A Question of Duty

Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa would make a great passing combination—if insults and accusations were footballs. Last week it was Jimmy's turn to toss: free after standing federal trial in Nashville, Tenn., Hoffa charged that Bobby had tried to tell Nashville Banner Publisher James G. Stahlman what the paper "should or should not print" about the trial. Moreover, he said, he could provide a transcript of a telephone conversation in which Bobby pressured Stahlman.

Just how Hoffa got hold of the transcript was not revealed. But the transcript did exist, and next day Stahlman printed it....

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