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...being convicted by the credible testimony of a completely innocent citizen," as the government said in its sentencing memorandum. Ryan caved, and the FBI fitted him with a wire in October and November 1994. Blondie, no fool, had grown wary of Ryan, and he made no incriminating statements on tape. But he knew the Colbert incident would topple him, and when he was approached by the FBI directly, Blondie caved too. "I miscalculated," he says ruefully. "The other stuff was just our word against druggies', but I hoped to win points by cooperating. I thought maybe I could get away...
Roger Rosenblatt, in writing about the newly revealed tape recordings made by Richard Nixon, recalled with fondness the laughs evoked by some of the remarks of past American Chief Executives [ESSAY, Nov. 24]. As a U.S. historian who focuses on the presidency, I found Rosenblatt's commentary downright hysterical until I got to the quote he attributed to Woodrow Wilson. In fact, it was Calvin Coolidge who said when a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. It's worth noting that Silent Cal had a sense of humor so dry that Alice Roosevelt Longworth said...
...scene and use tape recorders--for like every hour that we improvise we get like 30 seconds of dialogue that we'll keep. [pauses] You guys are like the real writers. You take a blank page and impose a structure on something. I know I can't do that because I was an English major--I've written papers for years and I'm just not good at it. It drives me nuts--I pull my hair out in front of the computer watching the cursor blink...
...include these items in my accounts, then turn off toward the bay, which is winter blue already. The powerboats have disappeared. The cormorants swarm in a black mass near the mouth of a creek, their snake heads craning for invisible fish. I watch for a while, slip in a tape of k.d. lang and add these things to my list as well...
...that option was considered, it was not reflected on the tapes Beschloss included in Taking Charge. In fact, I couldn't find any reference at all to my speeches. Then I noticed the date of the final tape--Aug. 29, 1964. Of course! That was a few weeks before I arrived in Washington. The references to my speeches must be in Volume II. As I envision it, L.B.J. is alone in the Oval Office during one of the darkest days of the war in Vietnam. He is looking for inspiration. Idly, he picks up a manuscript from a pile...