Rolling Stone Magazine No 147 November 8 1973

While an intelligence adviser in Vietnam in 1966,
Daniel Ellsberg met Richard Nixon face-to-face for
the first and only time. Ellsberg was working for Gen-
eral Ed Landsdale, who had a plan for setting up truly
honest elections in Saigon, and was anxious to explain
it to the visiting politician. Ellsberg vividly recalls the
man who would be President.

He was looking considerably overweight, very
jowly, and had his famous five oclock shadowit was
about five oclock, as a matter of fact, so he had what
on other people would be a full beard. And as we talk-
ed, his eyes would flicker from one person to another,
he was always looking at you out of the corner of his
eye, like a B-movie characterization of an untrust-
worthy person.

Anyway, we shook hands all around, and as he sat
down in a wicker chair next to Landsdale, he said,
Well, Ed, what are you up to And Landsdale said,
Well, Mr. Nixon, were trying to help General Thang
make this the most honest election that Vietnam has
ever had. |

Nixon slapped his knee, rammed Landsdale with
his elbow, and replied, Oh, honest . . . sure, honest...
as long as you win?

In The Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg,
we see how much Mr. Nixon likes to winhow he
changed our form of government, used awesome
police powers to eliminate opponents, and cynically
prolonged the War for four more years.

The title on the cover was taken from a phrase in the
Declaration of Independence: A Prince whose Char-
acter is thus marked by every act which may define a
tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People. To
prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

By Jann Wenner 18

A Midsummer Nights Dream
or just a Magnolia Nightmare? 
Ever since Mary Ann Mobley copped 
the Big One in Atlantic City, folks in Mississippi
have taken their beauty contests seriously. Aspirants
stream into Vicksburg, their Hatboxes Full of Dreams,
and the most unpardonable of all sins is the failure to
smile. But the question lingers: Are beauty queens
what they used to be? 36

A COUP DETAT!

One bloody month was all it took for Chiles brutal
baptism into the world of Pentagon CIA technology
By Richard E. Feinberg 40

Liza Minnelli & Ronnie Spector & ... Alice Cooper?
Well, why not. Clutching his omnipresent can of Bud,
Alice explains how he assembled a dream lineup of
backup chicks for his new album. Liza with a Z
Meets Alice with a C By Stuart Werbin 6

Jethro Tull is off the road and Ian Anderson has
plans for a movie, War Child. Ian will play God
By Robin Denselow 8

Producer Joe Boyd discusses the three-way demo-
cratic system behind the making of the impressionis-
tic A Film About Jimi Hendrix By Judith Sims 11

Goodbye David Bowie; leader Ian Hunter declares
that Mott the Hoople has found its niche
By Gordon Fletcher 14

Bob Marley & the Wailers express themselves on a
hot summers day; Reggae in Beantown
By James Isaacs 16

Look out Fanny, here comes Isis, an eight-piece all-
woman band By Glenn OBrien 17

[DEPARTMENTS]

Letters 4 Performance , 15
World News Roundup 40 Random Notes 39
Perspectives 42 Records 43
Singles 14

COVER ILLUSTRATION BY DAVE WILLARDSON

Founded in California, by Jann Wenner back in 1967 Rolling Stone Magazine delved deep into the music world and frequently tackled political issues. In the first edition 11/9/1967 Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone "is not just about music, but about things & attitudes that the music scene embraces. However it quickly distanced itself from the underground newspapers of the time embracing traditional journalism & avoiding the radical politics championed by the underground press.