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...aspects of the entire affair, including his nonexistent tapes, his large tax deductions, his personal finances and his dealings with dairy producers. If there was little new in this, it was extraordinary to hear the President declare: "The people have to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I've got." He had "never profited from public service," Nixon said. "And in all my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice...
Charlie mediates between him and Michael, a petty crook full of ambition but lacking Charlie's family connections. He mimics George Raft, and is sulky and dangerous when he thinks he's being crossed. Charlie appears to have some compassion for both, just as he appears to have some understanding of his girlfriend's (Teresa, the film's only unconvincing portrait) epilepsy. Associating with these people hurts Charlie's "career", because he has to stay in good with Uncle and the traditional ideal of "honorable men." On the surface, then, he stands out as heroic...
SPIRO AGNEW, a lesser crook in the Nixon den of thieves, ended his farewell address to the nation on a note of reassurance. Quoting from a remark made by James A. Garfield upon the assassination of President Lincoln, Agnew said. "Fellow citizens, God reigns and the government in Washington still lives...
...English burglar recently broke into a games manufacturing company and stole a fortune-in fake Monopoly money. The crook's confusion is not as funny as it sounds. So serious is Britain's continuing inflation that the current gibe by critics is that Monopoly pounds may soon be worth as much as the real thing...
...against him. "I have never seen a stronger extortion case," says U.S. Attorney James R. Thompson of Chicago, who was brought into the affair at the last minute to augment Justice's firepower. "If it had gone to trial, a conviction would have resulted. The man is a crook. The country is well...