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Ehrlichman adds to the J. Edgar Hoover legend by recalling that Hoover once informed Nixon that his agents had come across a report that Haldeman, Ehrlichman and another White House aide, Dwight Chapin, were homosexual "lovers." The FBI dug into the rumor, Hoover told the President, and turned in a report proving that it was unfounded. Ehrlichman suspected that Hoover manufactured the rumor so as to win White House favor by disproving...
...chime, is THE HEART OF THE BILLION DOLLAR COAL FIELD. But hidden behind that bluff, commercial slogan is a different kind of past-peculiar and unsavory and murderous. This valley is the home turf of the Hatfields and the McCoys, whose family war a century ago became freakish folk legend, even as it was being fought...
...screen with colored boxes must ultimately succumb to the loneliness of electronic immolation. Video games create artless heroism. The heroes born with the plink of a quarter and the blink of a screen seek an inhuman, mechanical perfection that frustrates their humanity instead of fulfilling it. No enduring legend of the Round Table here; the top ten scores are erased each week. No Walter Mitty could emerge from this stultifying fantasy world. As Stendhal said, "One can acquire everything in solitude except character...
...most popular legend bestows the honor on the Protestant reformer Martin Luther. One Christmas Eve, travelling alone through a snow-covered forest, Luther supposedly noticed brilliant stars twinkling among the evergreen trees. The scene made such a deep impression on him, that to recapture it for his family, he cut a small fir tree, dragged it into the nursery and placed lighted candles on the branches...
...handful of card manufacturers, book publishers and evangelical preachers are to be believed, Christmas has been celebrated on December 25 ever since Mary placed the Christ child in a manger. Unfortunately, historical documents, legend and law prove this widespread rumor unfounded. Books on the history of Christmas and on holiday traditions show that Christmas festivities have as firm a root in pagan ritual as Christian rite and that Massachusetts itself at one time played the grinch...