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...further confirmation were needed, it was visible a little later on the haggard, emotion-wracked face of the usually deadpan Ron Ziegler, who, with Haig, was Nixon's closest adviser in the dying days of his Administration. "Tonight at 9 o'clock, Eastern Daylight Time," Ziegler said, struggling to hold back tears, "the President of the U.S. will address the nation on radio and television from his Oval Office...
Seeking a new political start, Nixon challenged the popular Edmund ("Pat") Brown for the governorship of California in 1962, but was beaten by 300,000 votes (out of 5,850,000). Fatigued and haggard, Nixon mounted a podium at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton Hotel the following morning and, to the astonishment of the assembled newsmen, lashed out angrily at them. "Just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around any more because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference...
...Boys. For example: in an essay on his father, Hemphill writes, "now my old man...was, as we say, tacky." In a piece on the roller derby, he begins a section by saying, "If it's Sunday, this must be Louisville," and a few pages later, on Merle Haggard, he begins, "If it's Friday, this must be Dayton." He also goes to embarrassing lengths when given half a chance to describe the relationship between moonshining and stock-car racing, and he explains several laborious times exactly what a "good...
Speiser's portrayal of Lenny at his last obscenity trial in New York in '65 is devastating. Haggard, hounded and profoundly paranoid, he speaks first to an imaginary listener outside the courtroom and then to the judge. Speiser has gleaned and woven together from Bruce's last performances an account in Bruce's own words of his 19 busts. In Chicago a foolish bigoted judge puts on a show for the electorate. It's Ash Wednesday and the jurors he addresses all sport ashened foreheads. "It was like the goddammed Spanish Inquisition." The plain clothesmen who are sent...
...Your article on Merle Haggard [May 6] got me to take a better look at one of my own prejudices. I have always loved all types of music, but never could quite stomach country. After reading your article, I listened to two records of Haggard's left with me by a friend. You made a believer out of me-the man is really good...