Word: denouement
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...denouement was jarring in its swift resolution and therefore a bit surreal. Nearly 800 days after the Watergate breakin, 289 days after the Saturday Night Massacre, 97 days after the White House transcripts were released, twelve days after the Supreme Court voted, 8 to 0, that the President must surrender 64 more tapes, five days after the House Judiciary Committee voted out articles of impeachment, Nixon's defenses finally vanished. On Monday he issued the June 23, 1972 transcript that amounted to a confession to obstruction of justice and to lying to the American people and his own defense counsel...
...immediate effect of the Watergate denouement was to prompt an almost global wave of admiration for America's institutions. "It can't be true," said Simon Haj, 31, a Beirut taxi driver. "You need a tank to remove a President in the Arab world." Said Brazil's leading political pundit, Carlos Castello Branco, just before the resignation: "Nixon was never morally smaller than now, but the U.S. was never morally greater. If the U.S. had no other justification for world leadership, this alone would entitle it to present itself as a leader and inspirer in a world...
...surprising denouement to a crisis that only hours earlier had threatened war between Greece and Turkey over the embattled island of Cyprus...
That the writers obviously mean Pete to believe this, and intend for audiences to accept it as well, is one of the few genuinely amusing things in the movie. Written right and played right, Pete's testimonial could have been the sort of denouement that was a Preston Sturges specialty, an inadvertent confession of blindness and stupidity. It could have had a well-honed double edge of irony, but such style should not really be expected from film makers who prefer a bludgeon to a blade...
...liabilities were revealed. Opinion on the President, as judged by polls, has been pretty firmly set for some time, at least at the extremes. Thus the tax charges generated considerable sympathy among his hard-core supporters, while those convinced that the President must go took the tax denouement as additional confirmation of their opinion. The split in reaction was mirrored in editorial opinion round the country...