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...reputed former hatchet man for the Nixon White House, was arriving in Cambridge to give an Institute of Politics seminar. Malek served from 1970 through 1972 as an aide to Nixon in charge of personnel management and later moved on to the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) as deputy director after the Watergate break-in. During this time he organized and ran the Nixon "responsiveness program," which reputedly worked through Federal departments to dole out White House favors and punish White House enemies in legally questionable ways...
However, according to dossier number two on Malek (prepared largely by Malek himself) he is at heart a can-do management expert who, he claims, spent only about one per cent of his time on "responsiveness" while at the White House and CREEP. Watergate was the last strand in a web that entrapped an efficiency-minded businessman and his brilliant ideas, according to this picture. Malek was, he points out, one of the few Nixon aides to avoid indictment. "I still don't think anything I did was illegal," he says...
...hissed. "Plumbers. Capital 'P'. Dirty tricks, CREEP, Dr. Fielding. You know...
...going to be lovable, magnanimous, charming, witty and irresistible - not the aesthetic creep we all know and can't stand." So says Actor Nicol Williamson, talking about Sherlock Holmes, whom he plays in the forthcoming movie version of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. In the film, based on Nicholas Meyer's novel, the tweedy sleuth travels to Vienna and collaborates with - who else? - Sigmund Freud, portrayed by Alan Arkin. It's almost too good to be true, says Arkin. "I didn't know that after seven years in analysis, you get to play Freud...
...times, Higgin's chronicle of events virtually pleads for some kind of commentary. There is for instance the meeting in the Oval Office on June 23, 1972, where Haldeman informs the President that the break-in was engineered by a bunch of people over at CREEP. All Nixon has to do at this point is call Earl Silbert at the prosecutor's office, come completely clean, and his problems are over. Why doesn't he? Is it out of loyalty to John Mitchell? Higgins is content to observe that "if you work hard enough, you can transform any problem into...