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...thus ensuring a full-scale invasion of Cuba. The authors trace the Oswald double to a para-military band of right-wing Cubans. Most interestingly, the face of the Oswald tramp closely matches the drawing of Martin Luther King's assassin released by the FBI before they found James Earl Ray. Ray himself claims he was a pasty for a Cuban named Raoul...
...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 a calamity", and leaves it at that...
...heroes of the book are those men who act most in accordance with the precepts of the law, and who do their jobs efficiently. So Earl Silbert and Elliot L. Richardson are praised profusely for "doing it by the book," and those who used the case as an opportunity to mount their political soapboxes incur Higgins's wrath...
...might have been coined for this film. Too long and, finally, stupid, but some of the scenes are superb-the Marxist butler (stolen by Tom Stoppard for Travesties) and a skeletal, cobweb-bedecked House of Lords singing a rousing "Dem Bones Gonna Rise." Peter O'Toole plays a balmy earl who thinks he's Jesus Christ. The opening hanging scene and the parody of La Boheme are worth the price of admission...
...such a staying game would almost surely set off a political uproar, much as did Earl Warren's abortive effort to resign before Richard Nixon took office. "With these politicians looking for issues, it could become a maelstrom," says one court hand. "I'm dreading...