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...first Mitchell was the familiar figure of old, the nation's serenely confident chief lawman and the President's top political strategist. The voice was firm, the denials of personal wrongdoing scathing ("a palpable, damnable lie"), the humor bitingly heavy (on the Watergate conspirators: "It would have been simpler to have shot them...
...plans were discussed, finally gave an unenthusiastic but firm approval to the bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters and also to plans never carried out to wiretap other Democratic offices. At the time he was considering these unlawful decisions Mitchell was the Attorney General of the U.S.-the highest lawman in the land. By the time Mitchell received the results of the Watergate burglary, in the form of photographs of Democratic documents and summaries of telephone conversations, he was head of the re-election committee. He told Magruder and the bugging team's planner, G. Gordon Liddy, that...
...chance at settling down, building a respectable life working for the cattle interests. Instead, he chooses to run free with his friends (one of whom is played by an appropriately enigmatic Bob Dylan, who also provides some good music). Garrett (James Coburn), older, feeling threatened by age, takes a lawman's job. The marshal's badge makes him answerable to the ranchers and the politicians in Santa Fe. It is their star, their job, and they want Billy out of the way. Garrett rides down to Old Fort Sumner to give him a warning and a few days...
...dynamic forces are at work. The old settler vs. Indians and ranchers crises have been multiplied: brothels vs. churches, robber barons vs. entrepreneurs, California and Texas vs. Mexico (as last outpost frontiers), and one theme above them all-the cussing, whoring, rootless, indomitable old rider (be he gunslinger or lawman) vs. the encroaching complexity of modern society...
...policemen as Men of the Year. Twenty-four hours a day they place their lives on the line for the citizens of this country. How many people could or would take the risks and indignities that each lawman has thrust upon him daily...