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...Sirica last week presided over the "last major decision I'll have to render in this long, difficult case." Having sentenced 17 Watergaters to prison terms, Sirica was ruling on petitions for leniency from the only ones who are still imprisoned-John Mitchell, H.R. (Bob) Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. At their trial, tape-recorded conversations in the Oval Office had sealed their convictions. Now the three were seeking to persuade Sirica-by means of taped statements of contrition that the judge had requested-to reduce their sentences. The result: their 2½-to-8 year terms were...
Safire still chats with Nixon on the phone, wears his Nixon tie clasp around the office, and corresponds with Convicts John Mitchell and John Ehrlichman. "Mitchell said he's working in the prison library cracking down on overdue books," reports Safire. "Ehrlichman and I have the same agent." He avoids ex-friend Henry Kissinger, who, Safire says, ordered his White House phone tapped...
...rights to The Final Days." Both feared what dramatization might do to their account of Richard Nixon's resignation; having been participants in All the President's Men, they felt they could exercise some control over their first book. Woodward also objects to The Company, John Ehrlichman's novel on which the miniseries is loosely based. Says Woodward: "The events, the characters are so thinly veiled. If a work is fiction, then there is an obligation to go a great distance away from well-known facts and characters...
...hour-long serial, Washington: Behind Closed Doors, is a fine example: it was called fiction (which helps avoid libel suits), but since it was loosely "based" on a novel by John Ehrlichman, who went from the White House to the jailhouse, part of the fun was seeing how he got even with his Washington colleagues. At least Washington stuck fairly close to its characters' recognizable attributes, unlike most of the schlocky bestselling novels of recent years that trade on the public's understanding that they are really about Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Onassis or Howard Hughes The viciousness...
...should be noted, if only for the record, that the opus is officially billed as fiction. The basic source is John Ehrlichman's roman à clef, The Company, and all the famous names have been changed to protect the guilty. Even so, it is not hard to identify such major characters as President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards), ex-President Esker Scott Anderson (Andy Griffith), CIA Chief William Martin (Cliff Robertson) or National Security Council Head Carl Tessler (Harold Gould). Lesser Watergate lights-from Hugh Sloan to Howard Hunt-should be recognizable to anyone who has seen All the President...