Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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.■ ' ' ,.; ■ ■■■■ ■ • : :-. ' fz;im Rosemary erases Operation Candor It ' s been a pretty bad winter at the 68° White House. First, there was Bloody Saturday when Archibald Cox, Wil- liam Ruckelshaus, and Elliot Richardson (all the good guys) got canned or quit. Oh, people yelled then. So the President handed over some tapes. See how good he is ? But there seemed to be some tapes missing — two really good ones to be exact. The White House boys figured they ' d start up a little Operation Candor and hush that one up. Give ' em some more tapes , they said. The operation was not a success. You see, Rosemary, the secretary and White House gold medalist in gymnastics, turned to answer the telephone while transcribing a tape and hit the ' record ' button instead of the stop ' button and left her foot on the pedal or took it off or something — its really quite complicated — and, gee whiz, four and a half minutes were erased. Or so she said. Of course, she failed on her first attempt to reproduce this feat in the courtroom but drew a warm applause from the crowd when her second run-through was a success . - 11 Fine, but that turncoat bad Republican Judge John Sirica just said otherwise. His experts told him just today that nc Kif) UliiO ' Rosemary sort-of fibbed on the witness stand. The tape had been erased at least five times for a total of eighteen minutes — no footpedals involved. 15

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i ■M ;JSS i sj; As I type this up, a cold, tired America gets a little more mystified, a little more angry, about the goings on of the President. We ' re waiting to see what happens. But don ' t get the wrong idea. It hasn ' t been all bad. Remember, there ' s always the good side, too. Why, this year there were a lot of bright things. Like Kohoutek.