Word: briens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highlands and paddies of Indochina the distinctions of war blurred into My Lai Four and the question became not just who was crazy and who was sane, but who was there and who was not. Westmoreland and LBJ were not there--they dreamed of conquering Gaul. Tim O'Brien, the ex-infantryman and former Washington Post reporter who is the author of this fine novel was, and wondering why he had not gotten on the bus to Canada. And Cacciato was marching the 8,600 statute miles that lie between the Laotian border and Paris. Paris, France...
...authors may be right in their guess about what happened. But I think they are dead wrong about why. Nixon didn't need someone to bug O'Brien to establish a Hughes connection; Nixon knew positively that O'Brien was on Hughes' payroll. He knew it well before the Watergate burglary; so did the IRS, the Secretary of the Treasury (George Schultz), Colson and I. An IRS audit of Hughes' tax returns had disclosed the Hughes-to-O'Brien payments. A routine IRS Sensitive Case Report informed the President of O'Brien's appearance in the Hughes investigation (along with...
...here was Larry O'Brien, a secret Hughes lobbyist?and no one cared enough to dig out the proof about O'Brien's connection with Hughes. I believe it is almost certain that Nixon asked Colson to help him 'nail' O'Brien. Colson naturally turned to Hunt. And Hunt tried to do it by tapping O'Brien's telephone at Watergate...
...DiMona: Look, Bob, we can't write a book about Watergate without telling the readers why those fellows burgled Larry O'Brien's office...
Captain Paul Sawyer and junior Mark Culhane are the scoring leaders for Dartmouth, while freshman Jim Jankowski has been erratic in goal. And in case it slipped your mind, Dartmouth frustrated Harvard in the season-opener, 5-4, on a Don O'Brien overtime tally...