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...seems obsessed with certain villains, chiefly Richard Nixon and his Chief Justice, Warren Burger. Nixon, Douglas reports, was so vindictive that he denied a dying Earl Warren the use of Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Douglas scathingly describes Burger as Nixon's "hatchet man" on the court. Burger used to irritate Douglas, in fact, by ticking off all the liberal landmarks of the Warren Court that he wanted to reverse...
When Harrison does a hatchet job or a critical dissection it's clean and scalpel-sharp...
Even Scottish Laborite M.P. Willie Hamilton, who has made a career of being the scourge of all royals, great and small, fell under her spell. "For a fleeting moment my hatchet is buried, my venom dissipated," confessed the man who has called the royal family "goldplated scroungers." The zealous antimonarchist explained his truce by marveling at the Queen Mother's ability to combine "a love of the countryside, a passion for horses and dogs, an enthusiasm for angling -and, so it is said, a wholesome taste for a wee dram of her native Scotland's national beverage-harmless...
...long, O how long, America!" cried Clement, in a grandiloquent filch from Cicero's First Catiline Oration. "How long, O America, shall these things endure?" In Dwight Eisenhower's foreign policy, Clement declaimed, "Foster [Dulles] fiddles, frets, fritters and flits." Richard Nixon was "the vice-hatchet man slinging slander and spreading half-truths while the top man peers down the green fairways of indifference." To farmers, the gusty Tennessean pleaded: "Come on home . . . Your lands are studded with the white skulls and crossbones of broken Republican promises...
...hours later, NBC brought down the hatchet. Under pressure from the RCA Corp., NBC'S parent, Network President and Chief Executive Officer Fred Silverman announced that he had relieved Pfeiffer, a longtime friend, of her duties. But less than two hours after, Pfeiffer was back on the phone to the press with another venomous dart: "Yesterday Fred Silverman told me that there was no way we both could stay. He didn't ask for my resignation then or ever. He simply stated that the RCA people play hardball and that he would probably follow me out the door...