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...doesn't ship out of CREEP, and most important of all, Deep Throat himself. The Watergate Five appear only as silhouettes, Hunt and Liddy not at all. Donald Segretti comes off as pathetic and sophomoric rather than a pernicious master of dirty tricks. The heavies--Haldeman, Ehrlichmann, Colson, Kleindienst, Magruder and of course Nixon--aren't there at all, except in the news clips. Thus one of the most enjoyable episodes in the film is Woodward's midnight phone call to John Mitchell, in which the former attorney general threatens to "put Katie Graham's teat through a wringer...
...Colson reports that he eagerly agreed with Nixon. Kissinger "smiled and nodded," and Haldeman said nothing, but had a look "of hand-rubbing expectation. Only Ehrlichman, expressionless and often a lonely voice of moderation, jerked his head back and stared at the ceiling ... A Holy War was declared against the enemy ... The seeds of destruction were already sown-not in them...
...Right Thing. For Colson, Nixon was at his best when he seemed to make a decision on principle. When the President ordered all-out bombing after the North Vietnamese offensive in the spring of 1972, Colson warned him that the action might cost him the election. "So what," snapped Nixon. "It's the right thing...
After Nixon's reelection, Colson left the White House to practice law. As the Watergate scandal unfolded, he was occasionally summoned to the Oval Office, where he observed a President in alarming decline. Nixon, ironically, feared that his office was being bugged by his enemies (it was his own bugging system that brought him down). "I don't think I can trust anybody, not even the secretaries...
...about this time that Colson's thoughts, he reports, turned more frequently to God-with the aid of one of the White House's most notorious enemies, former Democratic Senator Harold Hughes. While Colson was in prison, Hughes, Congressman Al Quie and two other members of Colson's prayer group offered to serve out the rest of his term for him on the basis of an old statute they had unearthed. "For the first time," writes Colson, "I felt truly free, even as the fortunes of my life seemed at their lowest...