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...million to the library when he died in 1998, with the provision that the money be used in ways approved by both daughters. As they cannot agree on how the money should be spent, the matter has gone to court and the money remains undisbursed. Where are Haldeman and Ehrlichman when you need them...
...filled in, and that's the task Jonathan Lowy sets himself in Elvis and Nixon (Crown; 333 pages; $22.95), augmenting actual documents and news reports with snappy, invented satirical interludes and a teeming cast of cracked, half-cocked, profoundly unwell supporting characters. Take Max Sharpe, an Ehrlichman understudy whose assignment is to persuade folks in TV land to turn off Vietnam and watch some other show. It's grim out there on this December weekend in 1970; all sex and drugs and riots and M-16s. Nixon's team will have to work overtime to make sure the country...
DIED. JOHN EHRLICHMAN, 73, pugnacious Nixon domestic-affairs adviser and leak plugger who was imprisoned for his role in Watergate; after a battle with diabetes; in Atlanta. Disbarred for his crimes, which included planning the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist who treated Vietnam War critic Daniel Ellsberg, Ehrlichman later wrote novels, worked at an engineering firm, and often insisted the scandal was overblown...
...Mamet's anomic world; the playwright gave Walsh his first big break when he cast him in the 1984 Broadway production of Glengarry Glen Ross. Walsh did not start acting until he was 30, yet he brought his skill to nearly 60 film roles, including a turn as John Ehrlichman in Nixon and recently as a redneck kidnapper in the 1997 thriller Breakdown...
...became executive director of the United Negro College Fund; a year later, he was running the moderate, pro-business National Urban League. He got to know everyone who mattered in corporate America--white, black, whatever--and in politics as well. He played tennis regularly with John Ehrlichman, the Nixon aide, and the Urban League's federal contracts soared. Before the '70s had ended, he was enjoying a chauffeured Mercury, a Fifth Avenue apartment, an annual getaway to Martha's Vineyard, seats on four corporate boards and a reputation among some blacks as a "sellout." He didn't see it that...