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...offenders. Kleindienst's offense was to testify-falsely-that the President had never applied any pressure on him in the celebrated ITT antitrust cases. Later he admitted that at one point, Nixon had ordered him to drop a Supreme Court appeal with the admonition: "You son of a bitch, don't you understand the English language?" Certainly the Senate committee had been totally deceived by his testimony. But Hart fined Kleindienst only $100, gave him a 30-day jail sentence-and suspended both penalties. Tears, presumably of gratitude and relief, streamed down Kleindienst's cheeks...
...smoked dope less often during his junior year, but did not stop completely. He managed to ditch the floater, and picked up two other roommates. One of them, a rich preppie, was perhaps the most ostentatious son-of-a-bitch he had ever met. But the preppie owned a lot of expensive stereo equipment, and was free with his dope, so it was easy to put up with his arrogant manner...
Spielvogel here treats a writer named Peter Tarnopol whose career is strikingly similar to Roth's. Tarnopol wrote a very successful, prize-winning, reputation-making first novel but then got into a disastrous marriage; he has not written much since. Now, "pussy-whipped" as he is by bitch-wife Maureen, he has decided to write "My True Story," the autobiography included as the second part of Roth's novel. Two of Tarnopol's stories--"Useful Fictions"--make up the first part...
...runs short of breath in the middle of lines, and gives no appearance of understanding the words she blurts out in little hiccups. Daisy is supposed to be unspoiled, cunning and callow-and blithely attractive. Shepherd projects instead a taunting sexual hostility that turns Daisy into a little bitch goddess on a pedestal...
...White House to drop an antitrust case against the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., which was to pledge up to $400,000 to the G.O.P. In fact, the President himself had given Kleindienst such an order (which Kleindienst refused to carry out), saying: "You son of a bitch, don't you understand the English language...