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■ The Media and the President: New Yorker out with rare editorial slamming Nixon for “usurpation of power” in Cambodian invasion and calling for Congress and Supreme Court to repudiate him. Turns out it was written by ex-Kennedy aide Richard Goodwin, one of leaders of the New Politics crusade a couple of years back. . . . Washington Post printed long letter by William Shirer (The Fall of the Third Republic) comparing Nixon’s reasons for invading Cambodia with reasons Hitler, Goebbels and other Nazi propagandists gave for invasions of Poland, Denmark and Norway, but Post also took Shirer to task in accompanying editorial for making an “unconvincing job” of it. . . . Viking Press announces a new Modern Masters series: first three, Albert Camus by Conor Cruise O’Brien, Frantz Fanon by David Cante and Herbert Marcuse by Alasdair MacIntyre. . . . Among professors in Boston area setting up major antiwar campaign fund to help peace candidates in the fall, was Dr. John Knowles: Remember him? He was the fellow Nixon turned down as head of the nation’s health program in much publicized flap of last year.

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■ The Media and the President: New Yorker out with rare editorial slamming Nixon for “usurpation of power” in Cambodian invasion and calling for Congress and Supreme Court to repudiate him. Turns out it was written by ex-Kennedy aide Richard Goodwin, one of leaders of the New Politics crusade a couple of years back. . . . Washington Post printed long letter by William Shirer (The Fall of the Third Republic) comparing Nixon’s reasons for invading Cambodia with reasons Hitler, Goebbels and other Nazi propagandists gave for invasions of Poland, Denmark and Norway, but Post also took Shirer to task in accompanying editorial for making an “unconvincing job” of it. . . . Viking Press announces a new Modern Masters series: first three, Albert Camus by Conor Cruise O’Brien, Frantz Fanon by David Cante and Herbert Marcuse by Alasdair MacIntyre. . . . Among professors in Boston area setting up major antiwar campaign fund to help peace candidates in the fall, was Dr. John Knowles: Remember him? He was the fellow Nixon turned down as head of the nation’s health program in much publicized flap of last year.