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Helms' resentment increased when members of the Nixon White House, such as Chuck Colson and H.R. Haldeman, began hinting that Watergate may have been, after all, a CIA operation; and it peaked when John Ehrlichman wrote The Company, which featured a CIA director very much like Richard Helms black-mailing a President very much like Richard Nixon: give me an ambassadorship or I'll expose Watergate's sleazy underside. Why the hell would I want to be ambassador to Iran? says Helms...
...story's truly exciting figures (Charles Colson, John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, Bud Krogh) get such short shrift that it is often hard to tell them apart; they are interchangeable ciphers in a series of look-alike scenes. Pat Nixon (Cathleen Cordell) is a walk-on role, and Martha Mitchell is not even mentioned. The show has a surprisingly in consistent attitude toward the casting of famous faces. Ehrlichman (Graham Jarvis) and John Mitchell (John Randolph) vaguely resemble their real-life counter parts, but many of their White House cronies do not. This indecision extends right up to the stars...
...Colson's Law. If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.−Poster alleged to have hung in the office of former Nixon Aide Chuck Colson...
...Nixon administration officials could bound from the jail cells to take over the heights of the sporting world. Scrupulous H.R. Haldeman would be the logical choice to take over the Pirates, heavyweight John Mitchell might find a home in the world of high-class professional wrestling, and sentimental Charles Colson, who once vowed that he would walk over his own grandmother if the need arose, could try his hand managing the New York Mets, whose quality of play often evokes grandmotherly epithets. The possibilities are, unfortunately, almost limitless...
...explains his involvement as passive and oddly disinterested, claiming to have known nothing of the planning and little of the extent of the coverup. He quotes his diary to show he was relaxing on Bob Abplanalp's island on a date by which both Bob Haldeman and Charles Colson have testified they had notified him of events. The tone is set for a revision of contemporary history. He admits being aware of the use of the CIA to halt the FBI inquiry, but makes it seem all his subordinates' doing, with the president as a bunker-isolated entity...