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...conversations with his psychiatrist. Nor does it matter whether such information serves any legitimate purpose; Ehrlichman expressed doubts about psychiatry. If Government wants it, there ought to be a way to get it. After all, insurance adjusters, any private detective, seem to find a way to bribe a nurse or pose as a doctor. Why not the White House...
...fact that neither of them keeps lists of political enemies. To the skeptical observer this doesn't seem like quite enough of a basis for a political party, or even for an attack on a rival political party. One might have expected Kennedy to attack Nixon for attempting to bribe the judge in the Pentagon Papers trial, for approving--by his own admission--a national security program he knew was illegal, for extorting secret campaign contributions from large corporations. To attack him for keeping lists of his enemies is a little bit like attacking the terror bombing of Hanoi...
...revealed that Cambodia was being bombed, Kissinger had wiretaps placed on all his subordinates to find out who was responsible. When Ellsberg gave the Pentagon papers to the American people in whose name they had been compiled, the government wanted so badly to punish him that it tried to bribe his judge. When antiwar Democrats began denouncing the war, the Democratic Party added VVAW, the Panthers and the Communist Party to the list of organizations against whom it was proper to subvert democracy to defend it. Nixon never went as far as Thieu in making criminals of his opponents...
MIAMI. Democratic Mayor David Kennedy was indicted two weeks ago for conspiracy to bribe; he was charged with attempting to free a convicted drug offender. Also indicted was Circuit Judge Jack Turner, who had first sentenced the dealer to three years, then dismissed the case. At the same time, Circuit Judge Murray Goodman was indicted for conspiracy to accept a bribe after he reversed his own sentence and put a child molester on probation...
With these stereotypes well established, the script unfolds with all the flair of an interior decorator's imitation of House Beautiful. Albert first tries to ship Skouras off to Chicago with a bribe of fifteen thousand dollars. When this fails he magnanimously offers to take back his wife after her two week, "maybe three week," little jaunt of a romance. The play reaches a climax of insipidity when Fabray, nine months pregnant by her lover, and Channing, nine months pregnant by her husband, punctuate a conversation about men and childbirth with the long groans of labor pains. In the middle...