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...Robards' extraordinary capturing of the persona of Richard Nixon. But aside from that, distortions abound. No evidence exists, for example, that John F. Kennedy ever personally ordered political assassinations abroad, as the show has it. The miniseries has the Washington Post discovering malfeasance long before the Watergate breakin; it did not. The video version of the burglary by White House plumbers of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist becomes a break-in at a St. Louis courthouse; instead of psychiatric records, the squad is after police records. The fictional Lyndon Johnson orders the CIA to carry...
...grew into such an incompetent criminal that he dropped telltale identification at the site of one breakin; got lost after a holdup and drove his getaway car back into the robbery neighborhood, to be pursued and caught by surprised police; was caught another time when he re-entered the window of a business as he tried to steal more items from a place he had already robbed. Despite his reputation as an escape artist, most of his many efforts ended in frustration...
...Frost interview did not answer some of the lingering questions about Watergate. What precisely was the Watergate wiretapping meant to find out? Did Nixon know in advance that his re-election committee was planning the breakin? Why did he not destroy all of his tapes before their existence became known-or even after? Who erased the 18½ minutes of missing Oval Office conversation from the June 20 tape...
...life relying solely upon his own inner resources." To show that he was such a man, he once held his hand over a candle flame without flinching. This is G. Gordon Liddy, 46, eccentric ex-lawyer who was sentenced to 20 years as a ringleader in the original Watergate breakin. The last of the seven Watergate burglars still incarcerated, Liddy has steadfastly refused to talk about the conspiracy, or to show, in John Sirica's words, "even a hint of contrition or sorrow." Nonetheless, President Carter last week decided "in the interest of equity and fairness" to commute...
...defense of the breakin, Maihofer cited a constitutional clause authorizing "interventions" when needed "to prevent imminent danger." Three times in 1975, he noted, terrorists had attempted to invade nuclear facilities in France...