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...once again, for Nixon. When he left Washington, there was a chance he might yet be prosecuted. Gerald Ford fixed that a month later by issuing a presidential pardon protecting Nixon from legal penalties for anything he had done in connection with Watergate. But Nixon's health was poor, his psychic shock obvious. An attack of phlebitis nearly killed him. He later told friends that he heard voices calling, "Richard, pull yourself back...
...Bork to do the job, and so the "Saturday Night Massacre" ended, leaving the Nixon Administration a shambles. (In the midst of all this, it was almost incidental that Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned under fire for having taken graft and that he was replaced by Michigan Congressman Gerald Ford...
Where are they now? Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, Tom Landry, Bart Starr, Roger Staubach, Mike Ditka, Marilyn Quayle and Ruth ((Mrs. Norman Vincent)) Peale? On the success road along with Mario Cuomo, Larry King, Willard Scott, Paul Harvey, the Rev. Robert Schuller and Zig Ziglar. The show grew in marquee power when it moved on to Dallas last month with six starters on the motivational dream team -- Bush, Schwarzkopf, Staubach, Schuller, Peale and Ziglar -- talking to 16,500 people who had paid from $49 to $225 to be in Reunion Arena...
...Phoenix seminar was the one that really put the Success series, which had played 19 dates to smaller audiences in 1992, on the big-time motivational circuit. The key was persuading the former President to appear. After Reagan, Lowe said, it was easy to get Bush and Ford and the generals. Next he has targeted Margaret Thatcher, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Johnny Cash, who fit into his plans to move the Success seminars from auditoriums to stadiums next year, then from one day apiece to week-long crusades in the Billy Graham style and then from America to the world. (Lowe...
...more discordant note are Vikram Savkar as King Kaiser and Tim Ford as Alan Swann. Savkar sings fine and tries hard but he is simply miscast. Kaiser is supposed to be an egomaniac television star who terrorizes everyone--Savkar seems more like the nice kid next door with a paper route. Ford's performance is more problematic. His voice is negligible and his acting isn't much better. This sort of one-note performance would be less noticeable in a minor character but in someone who is supposed to carry as much presence and pizzazz as Swann...