Word: jeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by Gary Nelson Screenplay by Jeb Rosebrook and Gerry...
...Jeb Burrows Cliffside Park...
While we talked, a quarterback named Jeb Blount was brought in to meet Wilkinson. A free agent, Blount was being given a tryout (which he flunked) to become Steve Pisarkiewicz's backup. The 24-year-old Blount was obviously impressed by meeting Wilkinson. When Blount left, Bud recalled that he had once coached Oklahoma against a Texas team that had Peppy Blount, Jeb's father, on its roster. That was 31 years ago, and Wilkinson laughed at the coincidence, and the passage of time, and the bonds of the game that had drawn him back to football...
Haldeman tries to minimize his own role in the Nixon committee's intelligence-gathering plans. He contends that he did want the committee's deputy director, Jeb Stuart Magruder, to develop an intelligence capability but only to make "simple recordings of public speeches" by Democratic candidates so that inconsistencies could be attacked. He admits prodding Magruder to get going on it and says that Nixon, in turn, had been nudging...
Another Watergate figure who feels wronged is former Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, caricatured in the show as an unbelievably goony Hank Ferris. (Actually, Ferris' job is a mixture of Ziegler's and that of former Special Assistant to the President Jeb Stuart Magruder.) Says Ziegler: "I have had friends call me about the portrayal of Ferris, who comes across as a particularly insipid character. I'm comfortable in my own mind that I'm not that character." Maurice Stans, chairman of the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President, calls the whole production "so far from...