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...free/ But it don't worry me." Altman uses it as a lively anthem of indifference, a sing-along for deadheads. He weaves the song through the whole film and brings it full front at the climax, where a crowd sings it as a sort of chipper, even defiant apology after a singer has been shot down by a madman. "This isn't Dallas," shouts a performer from the stage. "It's Nashville." Of course, it is both. Altman means it to be even more. In this movie it is all of America...
Watergate Trial Defendant John Ehrlichman looked more chipper than he had in weeks. Asked why by a reporter, he replied: "Well, the sun is shining, it's a beautiful day." Even Ehrlichman joined in the laughter as newsmen suggested a more apt explanation: Federal Judge John J. Sirica had just revealed that Richard Nixon would not be able to testify before the trial is expected to end. Sirica's announcement was based on the findings of three court-appointed physicians who had examined Nixon, as well as the records of his ailments, in California...
...people that he may be buying political support or unduly influencing public policy for his family's benefit. There is no evidence that the vast Rockefeller family fortune has been so used; nor is Rocky's confirmation as Vice President yet in serious trouble. Nevertheless, the normally chipper and confident Rockefeller was embarrassed and distressed when news of his lavish gifts to a variety of people leaked out last week...
...President Nixon for the last time. For 40 minutes, the two men were alone in the Oval Office, sitting in chairs beside the fireplace beneath a painting of George Washington. When they were done talking about the bargain that had been struck, Agnew slipped away, and Nixon, looking more chipper and relaxed than he had in some time, was host to a state dinner for President Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast...
...took 19 flights to lift out the 2,500 American servicemen who still remained in the country on the last day. At about 5:20, a chipper North Vietnamese colonel stationed at the rear cargo ramp of a hulking U.S. Air Force C-141 transport presented a bamboo scroll painted with a Hanoi pagoda scene to an embarrassed American sergeant, whom he thought to be the last departing American. Moments later, Army Colonel David Odell, the Tan Son Nhut base commander, shouldered through the crowd and stepped to the boarding ramp; he had been having a final glass of champagne...