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...fictional replay of the Nixon tragedy-Washington: Behind Closed Doors- was holding 50 million Americans in front of their TV screens. The best line of the day came out of this electronic novel. Andy Griffith, playing a retiring President patterned on Lyndon Johnson, cast a wise eye on Jason Robards, the fictional Nixon, and advised, "It's plenty hard to lose the affection and trust of those people. But let me tell you something, lose it once by God you never get it back...
With Joe Goodreault and Craig Beling, the probable starters, with Joe Jason and Rank Russo, who could also start with nary a drop in talent, filling the holes at the linebacker positions, Harvard has little worry there...
...linebacker," Joe said, "we're talking about Russo (Frank), we're talking about Jason (Joe), we're talking about Goodreault (Joe), we're talking about Beling (Craig)." Then he mentioned a few others whom we're talking about...
...record, that the opus is officially billed as fiction. The basic source is John Ehrlichman's roman à clef, The Company, and all the famous names have been changed to protect the guilty. Even so, it is not hard to identify such major characters as President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards), ex-President Esker Scott Anderson (Andy Griffith), CIA Chief William Martin (Cliff Robertson) or National Security Council Head Carl Tessler (Harold Gould). Lesser Watergate lights-from Hugh Sloan to Howard Hunt-should be recognizable to anyone who has seen All the President...
...sillier flourishes of the show fade from memory, however, whenever Jason Robards is on the screen. Fresh from his Oscar-winning portrayal of Nixon Nemesis Ben Bradlee, Robards now provides a quintessential Nixon...