Word: haldeman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would you rather sleep with: Haldeman or Liddy...
...When I think of Liddy, all that comes up in my head is Harry Shearer. I'm going to have to go with Haldeman...
...Nixon's re-election effort was booting up, Nixon aides John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson and H.R. Haldeman asked Buchanan to launch a secret "plumbers" squad to investigate the President's enemies. But Buchanan spurned the offer, saying it was better to duke it out face to face than deliver a sucker punch. "I have yet to be shown what benefit this would do for the President--or for the rest of us, other than a psychological salve," Buchanan wrote in a July 8, 1971, memo now in the National Archives. After leaving the White House, Pat returned to the typewriter...
...huge cast of good actors, James Woods stands out as steely Bob Haldeman, and Joan Allen suggests in deft brush strokes a Pat Nixon condemned to stand by her ungiving man. Hopkins, though, is a failure. He finds neither the timber of Nixon's plummy baritone, with its wonderfully false attempts at intimacy, nor the stature of a career climber who, with raw hands, scaled the mountain and was still not high or big enough...
...political wisecracks are mostly on the level of bad Jay Leno. Suzanne appears on TV in a revealing dress, and someone comments, "I haven't seen a pair of boobs like that since Haldeman and Ehrlichman." All too often the producers -- who were openly angry about the way they were treated in Washington -- seem to be settling a personal score. When Suzanne, for example, wants to invite some of her show-business friends to a dinner party for the President, her stuffy aide objects: "We should be inviting people of quality and distinction -- not tan, happy people from Hollyood...