Word: factualism
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...writer's fancy and left them in. It was only after the book was set in type that Haldeman began making the necessary final corrections. By then, no doubt, he was under intense pressure to hurry and to keep the changes to a minimum. Perhaps that accounts for the factual inaccuracies...
...this same preface, Joe DiMona is given thanks for his extensive research work supplementing Haldeman's personal recollections. In my view, the hypothetical Watergate charges and the research are the book's major weaknesses. There are material, factual errors which impeach its substance...
There are other factual lapses in the book, some attributable to a lack of research, and others which point about 20 degrees off true, as if the anecdotes had been whispered down a long line of people to someone at a typewriter who was unfamiliar with the subject matter...
Other subjects suffer from a factual parallax. And there is a recollection gap in Haldeman's account of my suggestion to Nixon that he listen to his tape of his March 21, 1973, meeting with John Dean to determine the dimension of his problem with Dean. Haldeman writes: "At that point I thought Ehrlichman didn't even know about the tapes." In fact, I did not know of the taping system then. But I had been told that Nixon had taped that one meeting with Dean. Haldeman had told...
...argument over the factual batting average of such shows is not entirely relevant. A nonfiction TV movie with every line of dialogue taken exactly from the public record can still be a subjective work: each time a director casts an actor as a historical figure or chooses a camera angle, he is shaping the facts to serve a personal point of view. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, for example, was scrupulously researched but managed to transform history into nonsense. Washington: Behind Closed Doors, for all its fictionalizations, presented a symbolically credible portrait of moral chaos in Nixon...