Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble by Nora Ephron

Author:Nora Ephron [Ephron, Nora]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biographical, Essays, Nonfiction, Retail
ISBN: 9780345804730
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-10-16T04:00:00+00:00

The fight between her and Haldeman was, at its simplest, over office space. It began with his decision not to let her have Evelyn Lincoln’s old office, directly connected to the Oval Office, and it went on for months as he tried unsuccessfully to move her out of the White House entirely and into the Executive Office Building across the alley. But, at bottom, the dispute was over something far more substantive: both wanted to control access to the President. They went to the mat, and the President went with Haldeman. “Rose kept saying she didn’t want to go to the President with her problems because he was too busy,” said Eloise De La O. “Her office was moved, down the hall. Wouldn’t you think the President would be aware of it? It seems to me that if all of a sudden my secretary was moved, I’d notice. But she said she didn’t want to worry him. She is so loyal.” Significantly, Miss Woods never blamed Nixon for choosing Haldeman over her and instead focused her anger solely against the chief of staff.

The politicians and friends who had always counted on Rose as a way to the President’s ear found themselves up against the Berlin Wall, and Rose found herself increasingly excluded from the meetings she had expected to be part of. “Suddenly, she never seemed to be there,” said one Republican politician. “She was always off typing or something. After the election, I had a meeting with the President. I was waiting outside, and Haldeman came out and said to come in and meet Dr. Kissinger. I went in. Haldeman, Kissinger, and Nixon were there talking, and Bob was making notes. Then they left and the two of us started to talk. I was just telling the President what the mood was in a couple of states I’d been to—nothing confidential—when Nixon pushed a buzzer. Something I’d said had triggered something in his head. Bob Haldeman came in and took the notes on it on his yellow pad. It struck me not only as a little odd, but also inefficient—he didn’t even take shorthand.”

In February, 1969, Haldeman managed to keep Miss Woods’s name off the list of people who were to accompany the President on his first official trip to Europe, and she was devastated. “It was a classic example of Haldeman’s sadism,” said one former aide. “She never complained and never raised an objection. But a few days before the trip, the President was leaving the White House and Haldeman walked him out to the helicopter. Nixon must have mentioned something about it, because Haldeman came back to tell Rose that she was going on the trip after all. It was a great victory, although she hadn’t done anything.” And in 1971, Haldeman and John Ehrlichman made yet another attempt to remove Miss Woods from power. At that point, she was demoralized; she was almost the only old-time Nixon aide who had survived Haldeman’s machinations. “Hans and Fritz said she was drinking,” said one observer, “and that it had undermined her health.

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