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named as the man who gave it to them, By Philip Hilts Schorr denied it, and then, amid the grow- ing ire of congressmen, Kissinger, and oth- ers, Schorr admitted it. he telephone would not leave him Schorr and CBS thought that Schorr alone. He had just hung up and might be able to go on with his work—cov- T taken a few steps away from his ering the committee, and the report. desk to shake hands with his visitor. Be- He could not, obviously, report on hind him the telephone was ringing al- his own part in the story, the leak of the re- ready. He answered, spoke, and hung up. port. But he could continue to cover the Two sentences later the phone announced misdeeds of the CIA and FBI. He had, af- another intruder. ter all, contributed several important It was a Tuesday, Daniel Schorr's last scoops in the unraveling of the story. full day as a working television reporter be- But the pitch and volume of the noise fore his suspension and he was at the cen- around Schott kept growing. In this one, ter of a dark, spreading whirlwind of that- Schorr had caused great displeasure among ter and contention. When the first gusts of CBS executives in New York. One con- the trouble blew up and rattled CBS's tree, gressman was leading an attempt to have Schorr continued working. In fact, he was Schorr cited for contempt of Congress, and called in to do some extra weekend work there were sympathetic murmurings from especially to make the point that he was on others. President Ford was so riled he of- the job as always. fered the House some FBI agents to begin But reports said that Schorr was the man their assault. Henry Kissinger held a bit- who leaked a sort-of-secret document on ter, emotional news conference: He con- the misdeeds of the CIA and the FBI. The demned leaks and a new version of Mc- document was the report of the House In- telligence Committee and most of its con. Even the New York Times had run an tents was already made public by stories in editorial condemning Scborr. (Later, the New York Times and by Schorr on Times managing editor A. M. Rosenthal CBS. called Schorr and let him know the senti- The document itself was almost pub- ments of the piece flabbergasted him and lished by the committee, as is the usual were not widely believed at the Times.) practice. But the House of Representatives But the Times editorial was ammunition got tangled in an unusual knot of politics that could be used against Schorr, and and protocol with the White House, and other editorials condemning Schorr began no one seemed able to untie it. The House to appear. voted on January 29 to keep the report The telephone, which Schorr Ince most from the public, until and unless the messy journalists used as an instrument of his kink could be unwound by getting White will, was now turned against him—the House approval for publication. To this hunter was the hunted. knot of Gordius's, Daniel Schorr took his But for Daniel Schorr, it is not the first sword. The Village Voice printed a copy of time, or the second, or the third, or the the sort-of-secret report, and Schorr was fourth ....Schorr calls them flaps, and he has been at the center of many. Schorr Philip Hilts is author of Evening Stars, a works hard at becoming the center of at. book on television's anchormen that will ilitisnation by Vint Lawrence tendon, and he has a knack for setting off be published in the fall alarms everywhere he goes. In many senses

his career illustrates both the highest that there was a "process of gravitation vis- mild Schott was raised in the achievements and the grimmest gaffes of ible here in Germarly." Correction of the Bronx, in an atmosphere in which journalism on national television. error did little to cool the furor, sounding Draw hustle was as necessary and Schorr says he sometimes feels lace Joe strange and half-hearted as it did. natural as breathing. But Schorr's family Btf splk, the Lri Abner character who sparks Schorr's present difficulties with his was afflicted even more than most His fa- catastrophe: "I'm just going my way, get- own company were summed up by one ther died when Schorr was five years old, ting a story, but I keep looking behind me knowledgeable CBS reporter: "It is very and his mother worked as a seamstress to and buildings are falling down." complicated. It seems that someone way support the family.Schorr's younger broth- • In 1959 there was a special press con- up in the CBS hierarchy thought very er fell into a series of illnesses—including ference called by President Eisenhower's poorly of what Dan did with the Village pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever, press secretary to personally denounce Dan Voice. But to extricate that from all the and polio — which drained the family. Schorr and his reporting "It's as low a rest he did on the CIA for CBS is very diffi- Brother Alvin survived, partly with the form of reporting as I know of . . . utterly cult On top of that, no matter whether help of young Daniel who went our to hus- irresponsible." Schorr had reported that you like the Village Voice thing or not, tle for odd jobs before he was ten years old. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles what Schorr is heading into with Congress Schorr reflects for a moment on how would soon resign. The President's press is going to set precedents for a long time those years forged his character. secretary not only denied the story and de- and a lot of other people Somebody's un- "I grew up one generation after 'Hester nounced Schorr publicly, he angrily called doubtedly up there saying, 'He's a son of a Street.' Have you seen the picture? 'Hester Schorr's boss to try to bring more pre>sure. bitch but we've got to protect him If we Street' is a movie about Jewish imtni- Seven days after the denial, Dulles re- could figure out a way of defending the greats, and how they come and settle signed. cause without defending him, that would on the Lower East Side. . . and the fierce • In 1957 while CBS' Moscow corre- be lovely!' " struggle to crawl up and make your way in spondent, Schorr ignored censors'red pen- As the winter day grayed into afternoon American society. Turning your back on cils, read forbidden passages on the air any- Schorr left his tiny CBS office, and its jan- the old culture.. . way, and had his plug pulled again and gling telephones, to go on assignment "I am second-generation Russian Jewish again. He was arrested once, had his film Half a block away from the CBS building, imtnig' rant My mother was scraping for confiscated, and was attacked in the Soviet he climbed onto the cracked red leather the survival of her family. There was eth- newspapers. Finally, he was expelled from seat of his old Mercedes; the car's gray nic tension already there in the Bronx, the Moscow press corps and not allowed to paint long ago oxidized to a whitish color. with the Italians and the Irish. I grew up cover the Soviet Union. When back in the The drive to the CIA in Langley took with a sense that you had to make your United States, he found he was a hero to twenty minutes. For Schorr it was a famil- own way without help Nothing is on a the right wing for his defiance. iar assignment. When he arrived at the planer. You've got no money and live on a • There were many run-ins with the CIA, gate the guard waved hello. Though narrow margin of survivaL And you gotta Richard Nixon White House, including the Schorr did not know it, it would be the last go out and do it. moment in a press conference when Nixon CIA assignment of this phase of his CBS ca- "Unfortunately for me, and I can't help called Schorr a liar. And Nixon ordered an reer—and perhaps his last eves. it, it sounds a little like What Makes FBI investigation of Schorr after a story de- Sammy Run? I guess the only difference is tailing the falsity of a Nixon claim to sup- • • • you have to do it without totally losing port parochial schools. Schorr also made your dignity, as Sammy did Can you main- the top twenty on Nixon's enemies 1ism, and "Why do you keep getting into these tain some sense of standards? . . But I beside his name was the notation, "A real things?" Schorr was asked, "There are a lot will not deny what I came from and bow it media enemy." of good reporters at CBS, lace Bruce Mor- has shaped me . ." * Schorr egged former CIA director ton. Morton is .a good reporter, but he He did odd jobs, he sold the Saturday Richard Helms into calling him "killer" never runs into these things ... Evening Post and delivered the Bronx several times, "son of a bitch" twice, and "c- "True," said Schorr. Horne News, he was a salesman for a print- -" once, in a stream of epithets shouted "Well, why your ing company at twelve years old. Before in public after Schorr broke the story that A pause. "I guess the reason is," said high school there was already no doubt the CIA had apparendy attempted political Schorr with a straight, serious gaze that that he wanted to be a journalist He be- acsacsinations playwright Arthur Millet called exquisitely came the editor of his Hebrew School • In 1964, he enraged Senator Barry suited to news drama, "that if you had newspaper, and later editor of his high Goldwater, CBS chairman William Paley, been a poor kid in the Bronx and no one school paper, and his college paper. Before and CBS News President Fred Friendly by had ever made it easy for you to get any- be was out of school he had jobs as a reporting that immediately after accepting where, and the only way you have ever got- stringer for the Bronx Horne News and the the Republican nomination for President ten anywhere is by catching people's men- shorelived Jewish Daily Bulletin. Goldwater would travel to Germany to dons with something more dramatic, or "My first scoop came one day when I was "join up" with the right wing in Germany. more exclusive, or in some way more inter- on the ground Boar of an apartment build- Goldwater cancelled his trip to Berchtes- esting . . . then you know you're not going ing, and I heard a big pllloop outside the a gaden ("Hitler's one-time stomping to just sit there having other people read window. I looked outside and there was a ground," in Schorr's characterization)and Your scripts, and be a star. You're not body lying there Someone had jumped off Launched a verbal attack on Schorr and pretty. Your voice isn't especially good the roof. I got $5 for the story." CBS for a "campaign of falsification" Then your entire career is forced into at- He went to college at the City College of against .him Goldwater mentioned the tention-getting . New York between 1933 and 1939, and Schorr story and other , unrelated Matters It sounds like a confession, but not an worked for the Jewish Daily Bulletin and a as evidence of a CBS Conspiracy. apology. His attention-seeking and scoop- the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "Among Within a few days, Schorr was told to is- chasing are ancient habits, after thirty-five other things I was covering the growing sue a "clarification": He did not mean to years of work. He is an old fashioned news- Nazi Party in New York, and had very say that Goldwater intended to join up paper scoop artist, but one whose nerves early the thrill of investigative reporting, in with the German right wing, but rather and liver didn't go at forty. Continued on near page a 13 • enemy territory. It was also a through and after the war, very early experience in mu- and in 1948 is produced his Professional Turf Corp- tual manipulation-".. first major flap when be was The Nanis wanted public. reporting on the delicate ne- ity, and they wanted to be gotiations for independence oration invites you to perceived as a threat to the between the Dutch and what Jews. They wanted to sound is now Indonesia. The resod. the way Hitler sounded in the ;Mons were going badly when compare and see why our thirties, they wanted amen- a secret proposal was intro. don, especially front the party diced by another govern- methods will guarantee in Gecsowoy. ment, ro help push the Dutch The Jewish Daily Bulletin ro stoics tut. SC/101T got hold thrived on its headlining of of a copy of the secret pro- you a superior lawn at the Neal threat ro the Jews. posal, reported it, and soon So we and the Nazis had a was at the center of an irate cowman interest . . They national incident which in. lower cost. were all publicity drunk, and chided Schorr as a topic for we gave than more attention debate in the United Nations TROPERNOIAL lattl•ANAT LAWN DOCTOR LANW NOG NATIONAL Tag CORE. TURF SERVICE than anybody . It's kind of Security Council. NtAIRER OP AGTNAL 5 4 4 4 a funny thing to say, but the For several years after that TREATMENTS Jewish Daily Bulletin be- EVERT GO. FT. TREATED period, Schorr worked as a WIN ROVER-MAO EQUIPMENT YES NO NO NO NO came, in a sense, their house stringer in Holland, grabbing NOKT ZIAGR GUANANTa YES NO NO NO NO organ . . . They had factional mip1MOTIN from whatever LIME ARALIGATVN NRCIAAXG fights and riots and all these sources he could. They in- IN LOOT OF ANNUAL PROGRAM YES NO NO NO NO things, and there was I in the cluded the New York Tunes, DETRIMENTAL COMPAGTFON center of it. I should hose the Christian Science Moni- at ROLLING NQ YES YES YES NO been afraid, aiming in the tor, ABC, the London Daily CRANOIONGOEALSR NO YES YES YES YES .0.000F WM middle of it with ail these peo- Mail, others. As it has been APALIGATiONS LIQUID DRY DRY Oily DRY ple marching with swastikas with so many of television's DRY DRY on their arms aid all, but I other sear journalises, Schorr's MNT.DO OF SEEDING HYDRAULIC DRY TD DRESS TOPDRESS TOPORESS DR ESSSS kind of had • feeling that first big broadcasting break METHOD OF AERATION ORGANIC SPIKING- SPIKING- SPIKING- these guys would protect Ire came not with a scoop, but SLITTING SL ITT I NG _ SLITTING SLITTING because they woad:tie know with his coverage of a natural where their next headline was disaster--severe floods in For further information call . . 948.5252 corning from ... Holland." Schorr received a &horr's cbucepals was full telegram soon afterward from grown by the nine he worked Edward R. Mumma, who was IProfessional Turf Corporation.", for the Jewish Telegraphic in Linda. 'Would you at all Agency in the 1940s: He was consider a staff job with CBS fired after be went in to his in wash sgtonr laws denaand a raise. Ha In the fwe.ntrtheta pears worked fee the New York since that telegram, Schorr Journal-American for a while, has worked for CBS in South but he quit when the paper America, North America. Eu- sent an efficiency expert rope, and the Soviet Union, I around to aye time and CBS had submitted over a money by doing such things long period of time, name af- "THE PROFESSIONAL as taking the doors off the ter name to the Soviets, hop- POOL PEOPLE" booths in the men's rooms. ing that at some point, nne CERTIFIED Ills first great veins= out- correspondent would be al- side the city of New York was lowed a visa. Scliorr's name • PROTECTION • as a young man in the Army. happened to be in the hopper wawa al ata Frets MI be bawl a agnOgeelahlwad Though he *claimed the tank when the Soviets decided to tratebbiiii awarmv=wa of sergeant in the intelligence lee CBS back in their country. (Wan we ateasn iodide tais Goa branch, he did not we eye to He went to Moscow with a panel oweraa$ eye with the Army. "When a. eau-week visa, hoping to get BV ALDER OE contingent of an got off the full accreditation when he got REGISTERED POOLS train at Camp Polk, every- there. But after his visa ex- OMNOM body was sent to the barracks pired, the Soviets said noth- ) RIME RR to wait around until we were ing to him. He got no creden- 1 min= called our for classification. I. tials, but he wasn't bowed out 1= without asking anyone, sim- of the country either. Schorr Before You lake the Pluve," Se Sure To Get Tahitian's ply walked over to division was frustrated. So, one ot• Proposal (You'll Be Pieasontly Surprised). Fluxing Available headquarters and found the ning at a parry for Soviet offi- Main Office: 3564 BLADENSBURG RD., BRENTWOOD, MD. 277-5411 - pMSfio relations office because cials. Schorr got bold. He con- WALDORF I FAIRFAX I ANNAPOLIS EASTON I wanted to get an assignment fronted Nikolai Bulganin. in writing. I found a lieuten- then premier of the Soviet 043.6122 or 273-8323 956.5354 822-6845 ant there, and asked him. Union. and blared OW, ‘.• • • OPEN SUNDAY OPEN SUNDAY 799596.0 "Could you use a trained toy vim has expired and I am in Annapolis Call or See Johnsen Foals news-writer?' I told him that I in your county BUG a had just arrived. and that if he gain laughed He reached 3564 BLADENSBURG RD. moved fast enough he could out and with both hands pat- BRENTWOOD, MD. 20722 probably get me on his staff, ted Scharr on the cheeks, "A and save me horn soma 'Mar zeal criminal face if I ever sow 6-( 7411: Ll 6 tit hkime fate, It worked. If that is one,," what is meant by heading, I His biggest scoop Of chest "THE PROFESSIONAL ADDRESS PHONE I guess I've done that ail my years was purely accident. POOL PEOPLE" CITY. STATE ..... ZIP life." -Ljle in Russia,' be says, 14 The hustling continued "ccesises of making requeses.

Donaldson, "I knew Dan was going to say 'Thank you very . SHELVES . STEREO much,' and cut it off. I broke . ISRSKS .ROOKS m instantly, just as Schorr - WOOD SHOP • "7-" - C"'"i' . ,HOURS:1.8 m6 ended, and got my question W THE FINEST POLE UNITS in. Then there was if-ruing R./ CUSTOM-DESIGNED Reclean. 94 Levine. Poor Levine. By the X time Levine opened his moult to ask his question, Meany 1... 1 . i MARCH was toad. When Levine tried ...,..—..... [I. — to ask his question. Meany 11-1111 - i J SPECIAL! jumped on him. 'What's the Genuine Arneaeon Wanut neuter with you? I made an EN:and/no . — . Al Mutie are T.V. Core agreement that there would , li1,21 ter. Hata plum fir be no questions! I doer like . le,g _ everything - stereo STRUM, manta me- people who Make agreements i' ippi„f , order, T.V.„ mconA, and then break than! . ism end drawee TOT Meany stormed back up- odds and soak This unit antends to 9' stairs. ' r" alone a WNW or ar- Ramer, Even a dozen years ago, '' rer- 10'- 1111i ound a Schorr's reputation for hustle I, ', Regular Price was enough to give a tromped- A --r-- — $299.95 tor bad dream Roger Mucd recalled his NOW ONLY "It was in 1964, and I was " $199.95 covering the Goldwater cuts. .. -...... -----ir.7 paign. One of the events was a i " • "'" - -11110W.W :• dinner in Louisville, Ken- t.t 1 t:Imam...---,..,..5..^.-.1.. , , I tucky, and beside everybody's i ,P-.tEn7:. plate in the hall there was a 1,' ...... 11-...1 Goldwater mask. When Gold- , ...... j1.-. 1 iilli rdr. il 41 water arrived and walked into lle: I --2, i71 l._.._,.-. -. 1-. at 'es Sy' the hail, everybody put on the ' __--,-•''''' „.-syrr, masks . . . It was really SATISFACTION spooky to see the hall filled OR YOUR MONEY BACK with a crowd of identical GEORGETOWN CANAL MART I FALLS CHURCH I ROCKYILLE faces me m st pur. 1873 OA SL ILO. OUR anal It IRO "I went back to Washing- 337-1$T1 33T.OS2 ' sassai 42.4.1.RR aft. ton and there was one week of feverish activity on the Hill Throughout the week, every- where I went, there was Des Don't blame your hair for I kept bumping into him on every story I did." Schorr's what your scalp is doing to it! beat at the time was an The finest hair care in the world ems, your hair is revitalized at amorphous one that allowed will not effect a dandruff acre. the same time. him to haw from story to The dandruff problem goes deep- Countless thousands of peopla story and invade other Feu- at than that. The trouble begth use Glover's Medicated Ointment ple's nal. at the scalp-second-skin deep- for the temporary relief of am- end that's where dandruff hasty druff itch, dry scalp and loose was doing the Saturday be checked. dandruff. It is pleasantly scented news at the time, and I went Glover's Medicated Ointment, and easy to use. lust massage into up to New York on the week- especially formulated, is the scalp and hair, comb, then go on about your business looking and ends to do it. Well, after this proved, scientific way to control - dandruff secondekin deep! At feeling well groomed. Get Glee- one week On the Hill, I had a first application, Glover's Medi- em's Medicated Ointment from drown that I left the Hill, and rated Ointment goes to work- your druggist or write for a pen- was weed to get away from penetrating Its healing benefits era= trial size jar. Mail your under the scalp-cleansing, condi- name, address and 250 in cost to Dan. I rat to Washington Na. toning and lubricating the scalp cover mailing costs, to Glover, clonal Airport, I ran up the back to vigorous, dandruff-free Dept. 19 , 9 Robbins Stoat, steps of the plane, and started health. In this conditioning pro- Box 432, Torus River, NI 08233. looking for a seat. °An the seats were filled, Va.ftlg...0., x-Mo.::•ft• 4,:‘:‘ y'-',:''2''..' eftieWle, and all the passengers, every- ..f.:.:: where I looked they turned Xrjn/raDECORATORS I: around and looked at mu They all had these Dan Schorr TOP QUALITY WORK AT REASONABLE PRICE . ...as Those who have competed P.-- on stories with Scharr over the years come away with two complaints. The first is that Scheer beats than far too of- ten for their own liking, or what is worse, for the liking of their bceses. The second is that he gets wrong or inaccu- INTERIOR a PAINTING • EXTERIOR ✓ate stories on the air far more WALL PAPERING often than he should, and 468-0050 869-6054 most are never corrected. It ibmw,L7"---0:-::::::.::::";,-,-,01,0qv' .ii Selmer, from page 17 an hour or so, he rises and who would benefit from is, in the eyes of his carpel ter Butterfield vehonendy de. goes in to take his shower and such programs, and then with don, a sort of Babe Ruth syn- nied the story, Prouty backed shave H.EW., Schorr found noth- drome He knocks them over off his claim - But even them he listens to ing to support Nixon's claim the fence so often it becomes An awe which was nom the news. He has a special And he reported that. expected; but he also strikes mode on the air, but which speaker box installed in the Nixon ordered out the EISL out far more than the average cost him more dearly among bathroom so he can listen to In digging out the neces- hitter. The zeal of the swing his CBS colleagues was en the news while he showers. sary information, Schorr's in- accounts for both event which has come to be Schorr's work habits we terciews are not, as some Some of the errors were called "the Duke University late those of a bachelor in might expect, the abrasive during the hottest time of thing." Ac a Duke media Wu- many ways, because he was kind used by reporters late competition—the unfolding femme in January of 1975, unmarried until he was f dry Seymour Hash or Mace Wal- of Watergate. During one pe- Schorr was answering stu- years old. Ten rem ago, he lace Sawn. is just the oppo- riod he seemed to be on the dents questions, when one married a 35-yennold woman site on most occasions, inter- air almost continuously with asked about why CBS news- who worked at the Office of viewing conversationally, one story aka another ahead men "went soft on Nixon" in Economic Opportunity, Lire gently. He is direct with his of the other =works. • One their commentaries icomedi- both Bomberger. Mrs. Schorr, questions, bum he couches story Schorr did in the early stay after the Nixon resigns- known as "Lee," now works them genially with chatter months of 'Watergate said that ' rim speech. Schorr told the part-time with the Children's and Memo indictments would be corning students that CBS executives Defense Fund, and full time But whet often trips Schorr in the nom few days, the told the commentators to "go' raising the Woos' two chil- up in the eyes of his col- grand jury was ready with easy" as Nixon, and that the dren, eight-year-ad Jonathan leagues and in making Ms- them. "That story was commentators did take it and five-year-old Lisa. What- takes on the air is his teal af- wrong," Schorr admits, "The msy, except foe Roger Mudd, ever abrasiveness Schorr has ter he has got the story. Most indictments didn't rotor until who "didn't get the message" at work, it mens quickly away days, CBS Washington report- much later Jaworski held because he got to the studio when be is around his chll- ers sell their stories to the onto them." late from the Hilt The epi- dais Washington producer, John In another story. Schorr re- sode apparently had its begin- Before arriving at work, Armstrong. He in turn negoti- ported that a lawyer foe one of nings in the fart that Schorr Schorr soaks up the morning ates with the CBS producers the Watergate defendants was excluded from the post- papas and listens to radio in New York to get the stories would file a motion in court speech analysis and the fea- news in his oar. While he is at on the Evening News. While the next day to have the ture Vary Schorr prepared on work, his habits generally Watergate hearings cur off be- Nixon's career was not used most reporters are satisfied don't allow much time for a simply to state what their cause they would be preps:h- on the air that night. (None of favorite pastime of journalists eal to fair trials -I cannot the rest of the more than two story is, Schorr pitches very —newsroom jawing. He stays hard for his storks once, honestly tell you if the motion hours of feature material pre- at work after seven ti cock on twice,, three or even four was ever sod.- says Schorr- pared for the night was used many nights, and men after times during an afternoon. It wasn't either.) he arrives at home, he fre- He will banter and argue Schorr also reported the The actuation. that Schorr quently settles into reading with the producers, and there day Iodate the first batch of apparently Erode at Duke that is, directly related to his have evert been a few times Watergate indictments were sparked the age of those sup. Sob. And then there are the when Schorr would not take reported out, that thirty-one posed to have taken the fall-- dinners and parties which ni- the producer's no for an an- persons would be named in Eric Sevareid, Dm Rather, and cest CUM into useful working swer. Schorr's will prevailed the indictment The next day, Walter Cronkite Alter mom comae on one Watergate story only when only seven were in- rime of public charges being One of the things he does in after an afternoon's screaming thaed, Schorr's report looked traded end ducked, Schorr those long hours is to read so match with producer Don foolish. sent a private note to the com- luminously in oevapapers, Bowers. Rarely, Schorr has Schorr was upset, because mentators to try to smooth the magazines, and govenunent carried his pitch above the he too thought the story was troubled waters. But since the reports. And out of that wad- level of the Washington pro wrong. Now he says that tech- commentators got their black ing comes a habit that most dues, to the New York nically. it may not have been eyes in public, they wanted a television reporters rarely use. executive producer at Crook- wrong. Schorr called his public apology or clarification From scraps of information he ite hirreetL source Mow the indictments from Schorr. He hasn't come has heard or read, he forma a Schorr describes one of the came 004 and he demanded up with one, and much al hypothesis—the basic ele- end-nets he made late in the to know, "How could you let feeling still flows between the ment in his. success. Working day. It was during the early me go on the air with such a parties- from that, he then makes a days of the wage-price freeze, ridiculously high figure of The list of =elusive barrage of calls to try to con- and Schorr got the details of indicurentr2" The source stories that &ham gm wide firm or dismantle it. the wage and price council's pointed out to him that he did out error is, of course, far first major rote. It was anti-la. not say thirty-one people longer than any EA of mis- In the story which bcc, and it set the pattern for would be indicted, but that takes. It is only because launched the famous FBI in- all future vow.. Schorr got thirty-one would be ripcord in Schorr comet up with so vestigation of hint, he worked rise details at 6i10, twenty the indictment Some would many good storks so often in chat manner. After hearing minutes before air rime. He be indicted later, and some that anyone bothers to keep Nitoon speak before the talked to the Washington fell into the category of ma- track of his missteps. Knights of Columbus and llard co-conspirators. promise that his administra- producers but couldn't con- vince diem to break in at the More measly, Schorr inter. tion would help rescue the pa- last mornesu. Then he called viewed Fletcher Prouty on the rochial schools from their fi- Les Midgley, who was then CBS Morning News and made nancial troubles, Schorr re- called hearing something that eremite producer in New headlines with Proury's claim is obsessive work did not fit with that lie Yock. It was &25, and Midg- that Nixon aide Alexander habits begin the mo- guessed that the Nixon speech ley said, "I don't have time to Butterfield secretly served as ment be wakes up at H was utterly =pry rhetoric talk to you, I'm working on the CIA's matt in the White 7 a. m His wife is still asleep, That might easily be proved today's show." House. Schorr was unable to and Schorr doesn't get out of or disproved by checking to "Tin talking' about today's verify Prouty's story before bed, but he turns on the CBS Me what programs were go show!" shouted Schorr, "A putting him on the air, and he Morning News and listens ing or were planned to help big story for today's show!" now callgals the decision to quietly to it through an en- the panachial schools. Check- It was a case," says Schorr, put Inman with the story. Af- plug near the bed. Alter half Mg first with Catholic lobby- "Where I had to knock Midg- Consinued on page a ley's head Finally. he poi me not enjoy kr . . . Nor this in the lineup at the-cop of the erre " show. I Wen' straight into the This one is very messy. The studio and did it, 241d:thing." clouds around it keep gather- Even more Lawn:ant for a ing, gusting, and darkening. reporter's career than getting There is a long lien of circurn on the sir is getting visibility, wartime masons for that 11317C Schorr says. "You have to do SWw is has at least the potty. strain; in which you are iden- time for getting completely our tifiable... I watch the show of hand, for becoming Daniel all the time, and fcant tell SoScres Fin21 Flap you who did all die storira, The seeding of the trouble and the daily bits that are began irrenediately. Just after voice•ovar Mac It's the OOPS the Village Voice published in which you stand out that the report, reporters found caw ..." that Schorr was the one who With a chuckle, Roger had passed it So they called Mudd says dint Schorr carri es Schorr. And Schorr node a that principle about as far as serious mistake. He lied. anyone could "I kid Dan If anyone knew else hazards about it a lot Ifs his way . . of lying in the fate of the obvi. he wants in have his own ous, it should have been mum and fare on everything Schorr, who had an carefully its does. That anal =retinas snatched Richard NBLOCCS fall. ceps him up and gets people But he went ahead. "I trod at him. thought," says Schorr, "that if "You know if the produc- I oonfirmed officially that it ers here ever nonage to ran- was I who gave it, then the dom and edit a Schorr piece "only next step would be chal- without having Dan's face in /easing thorn to subpoena me lc, [bey acne out of the cut- and ask any source. The only ting morn laughing and gig- way of maintaining one ackli. gling . . It's a major hap- tional layer between my origl paraing in the btreau, it is just nal source and disclostue of an rare He just doesn't do trry source, I thought, was to fox tern rho fan that I dad given ismit the Voice . That was an ill-connived WC. thief aCii00. I Wade ii look as IC 'd rather be calked though I was being evasive about than net talked and uncandid which at that Iabout I Irked bring point I was being . . I on Nixon's enemies list thought time was reason to Yeah," says Schott "But this Rap I'm in now is becoming Thera was also the fact that very unpleasant There are a the report was leaked to the lot of tangential issues which Village Voice, a biased are becoming major issues. publicatioo to many, and Cff- 1-ace, why did you rte them to 12inly a aciveig political publi- pay sonar money in cation. As one CBS executive somebody? What did money was quoted as saying, "pub& 'tavern do with it? ration of the report there "Yes, I IHut attention. But I nude Dana actions very would prefer other kinds so lad It could reinforce she this one You see, that FBI conviction some of out con- thing was perked" servative affiliates have, that He says it with relish "The while CBS news management FBI thing got use a lot of at. is nor politically oriented, un- tendon in a situation where I derneath them are soar re. had done nothing. And scrat- porters who west their hearts ching very stupid and obyec- on their left sleeve. tivcly nor very harmful had Schorr had asked the com- keen done to me Thais mittee to have some one find perfect 'When you just sir an outlet. He hated the there, and people call you up idea of giving she mat- and say, `How could cheyn erial to the Village Voice "But in this case. Wage-ten "Oh Cbristrlie protestednhe past the point where I enjoy Village Voice! Can't au get it I feel stunewtm on the de. something, anything, other fensive. I don's know exactly than their But the snot. how or why. But Fm on the ney, Peter Tufo, searching for defensive. Nate Ira of people a paper, mid him so saying 'you did what you had Still bather oomplicating to de, and is was wonderful.' the public image of the trotter Quite a its of people either was the money. It was a siff1- confused, for tending to fee: piC enough idea Schorr had something bemused which rro intention of making wasn't quite right And I do imam,. Hess. no MEW why the village Voice or any other bit in the shadow and had to commercial outfit should get : . profit from the publication. It -You're already partly para- was a matter of principle So lyzed if you have to think of he tried to make an arrange- those things. That was Tues- ment that would send pro day night, and then Wednes- cords of publication to a Suitt.. day morning I started out, I hie place—the Reporter's had to talk to (CIA director) Committee for Freedom of the GeorgeBush about something Press. • that needed clarification from But even reporters who Un- she day before. I taught him derstood Schorr's intentions just as he was going into the had some bad feelings about Senate Foreign Relations it. Peter Lisagor of the Chi. Constance in the rooming. I cago Daily Netts Washington chatted with him in a very Bureau said, "Selling any doc- friendly manner for a minute. ument that's been leaked is in- All the Cattletatnen were tolerable for a newsman, staked out taking pictures of whether it's for personal people going into the dosed profit or for charity. Dan's meeting, and one of the pho- conduct only helps those out tographers took a picture of to discredit the press." coe with George Bush. So Schorr was soon finding it a here's the four-coluraa pic- little hard to do his Yob:There ture that evening in the Star, was a story I bad In do about With the caption aver it, which way the White HOLM 'SCHORR CONFRONTS AN- was going on the intelligence OTHER aA " plans . I had to say oo the When Schorr got house that air that 'it appears they we go- night he got a 0111 from Bush, ing to be tightening up on who apologised to hires people in the executive Wen, to have embarrassed branch, establishing criminal you. I don't think we had a penalties for leakieg.• Then I confrontation in the hall, but had to say, 7lowever, there I guess my face when Fro seems to be no indication that thoughtful may have looked they will try to extend beyond angry . . starry." Schorr that and establish penalties laughed, and said he was the for repenters . It takes me one who should apologize. a lot of very straight face to "Everywhere I appear with deliver that line no the air um- somebody these days some- der present circumstances. boda'sga amangle as to what People look at you, and you that eight mean . . ." want to add, Thank Gar " That meeting with Bush He would find that at was Wednesday morning, and President Fords recent press Wednesday afternoon there conference, security would be was a White Home briefing the central topic of the whole with the Attorney General, program "Before I went to again dealing with Teske. "At the news conference, I told the White House beading it the people at CBS I was go- took a lot of getting my spunk Mg. They all said You sten up just to ask a question that I know immediately what's in wanted to ask. You could fed their minds. les so clear that the electricity in the air. I was Ford is trying to make politi- wood:ring if psople were go- cal hay on this issue, just im- ing to write stories saying agine if he would point to me things like Schoen got up to and say, 'There sits Daniel ask a question about leaks of Schorr who is one of those the Attorney General, who at who would try and ruin our that moment was COrt.sideting country.' Bang! The camera whether to prosecute Schorr pans to Schorr who sits help- on leaks." lessly while Ford makes him a That Wednesday after- national symhol. Well, does noon, as Schorr was putting CBS need that kind of thine together his part of the story Who needs is? On the other on the President's new ap- band, I am not going to be proach to secrecy, Washing- scared away if Fred is talking ton Bureau Chief Sandy Sao about my heat So finally, 1 low called Schorr into his of- went, but I determined I was fice not going to ask any ques- The word had corm from tions, I am not going to do New York: "They really think anything that appears provoc- that it has gotten ton tough ative. I've got a beat, and I've for you to continue covering got to be there, but I won't the CIA heat like that, at least ask 'any questions. And I right now. Wouldn't you wait sit up in front sit in agree?" the back, where if there is a Yes, said Schorr. So, as of picture of nor it will be a little four o'clock, Wednesday, February 18, Schorr was to herd of his beat It was agreed that he should go home and take a long week- end off.

hen Schur fleas on u. be is a Wlittle awed by the fact that CBS has kept him foe twenty-three years, through all the turbulence and flaps. Edward R. Murrow was forced to leave, Howard K. Smith was fired, and Mere have been mhos. But still CBS has managed to tolerate Schorr. As • matter of politica, Schorr points out that the Morrow and Smith troubles ended up in the office of CBS Chairmen William Paley. His awn flaps, on the other brut bubbled up only co the presi- dent; of the news division, and at that level, compro- mises can be reached, =CU. dyes can back down. But when William Paley is aroused, there is no compro- mise, no backing dawn. But now, after twenty- three years, Schorr may have aroused Paley and drawn hint into the Bap. Less duo rwenty-fore bouts before the Village Voice with its secrets was published Dahiel Schorr was on the CBS Evening News telling a pert of the story of William Paley and the la.A. Paley, according Schorr's soutcn once called a subordinate into his office, in- troduced two CIA nwn aa himh, and said they would be working for CBS Schorr had some second thoughts before putting the story on the air, but he went ahead. The nest day, the furor over the Village Voice beck& It now appalls that the ominous mudding from corporate CBS may have come from William Paley. At the end of the corpora- tion's press release which said Warr was being relieved of his reporting dudes lock i• likely,' there was one further line It pored that CBS would wait until after the trouble blew aver befccv delivering its own decision and cam- glautoes an the bead of Schorr. It any be that Daniel Schorr Wu finally raised him.• self up to the level of media canooMnio' n, and will be- come, along with Morrow and Smith, one of William Pa- ley's mango of Black Rock- •