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---------- [excerpt from All The President's Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward] ------------

        The next morning, the New York Times did not mention the secret-fund stories.  At the White House, Ron Ziegler was not asked about them.  The networks carried neither of the stories, and most papers didn't either.  

On Capitol Hill, the Republican leader of the Senate, Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, told an informal morning press conference that the Watergate case was not of concern to the average voter but of interest to "just Senator McGovern and the media."  "Nobody is paying any attention to what you're writing," he said.  

In the newsroom, Bernstein and Woodward waited for the first edition of the afternoon Washington Star-News to arrive.  The only Watergate story was about a George Washington University law professor who had filed a motion in federal court seeking the appointment of a special prosecutor in the case.

        Late that afternoon, Bernstein signed out a company car an drove to McLean, in the Virginia suburbs, to visit Hugh Sloan, the former treasurer of CRP.  The trip, ordinarily half an hour's drive, took more than an hour and a quarter in the rain; Sloan lived in a new development, and Bernstein had trouble finding it.

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