Word: higgin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Island, one of the last undiscovered parts of the National Seashore, in Wellfleet. It is on the inside of the Cape in Wellfleet Harbor. The tides and winds have gradually formed a sand spit which now connects the Island to the town. It was the location of Higgin's Tavern, in which famous pirate Black Bellamy hung out. It is now uninhabited...
...cleverest thing about this book is the title, suggesting, by reference to Higgin's first work, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, that Richard M. Nixon's mentality was comparable to that of a small-time Mafia hood. Disappointingly, this is as close as Higgins comes to explaining Nixon's peculiar behavior duing the Watergate affair...
...times, Higgin's chronicle of events virtually pleads for some kind of commentary. There is for instance the meeting in the Oval Office on June 23, 1972, where Haldeman informs the President that the break-in was engineered by a bunch of people over at CREEP. All Nixon has to do at this point is call Earl Silbert at the prosecutor's office, come completely clean, and his problems are over. Why doesn't he? Is it out of loyalty to John Mitchell? Higgins is content to observe that "if you work hard enough, you can transform any problem into...
...only goalies benefit from Higgin's work. He has made a rib protector for a Boston Braves skater, fiberglass shins for a polo player, and a lightweight removable cast for Ken Harrelson...