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...Humphrey was just too dim-wittedly good-humored to get a crack at the part. Not with a pro like Richard Milhous Nixon to contend with. For when it comes to being a stand-up-sit-down-fall-out comedian Mr. Nixon always was, still is, and always will be, as they say in the trade, a natural...
...needled some popular historic myths and a few political reputations. Now. in Millhouse, De Antonio has employed his usual technique of matching fragments of news film with quick on-camera interviews to produce an unflattering hut funny likeness of the 37th President (whose middle name is Milhous, not Millhouse, but let that go). To be sure, De Antonio's jubilant bias sometimes plays him false. Nixon is too often seen stumbling over a foot or a phrase, and sometimes satire descends to the level of easy derision, as when scenes of Nixon's South American visit...
President Richard Nixon has more in common with grass-roots America than many people realize: he has a cousin on welfare. Philip Milhous, 55, whose father was the President's uncle, lost his small chain-saw business in Grass Valley, Calif., after he had a heart attack in 1966. Welfare and Social Security payments were not enough; his wife Anna, 47, has rheumatoid arthritis, and they needed someone to help keep house. The Milhouses turned to the California Rural League Assistance project, recently under attack by Governor Reagan for inadequate service to the poor. Within days of CRLA intervention...
Patrolling the battlefield, defending the fortress against unwanted infiltrators, is the President's personal staff. It is his own creation. Each of the staff members is ultimately answerable to a constituency of only one man: Richard Milhous Nixon. Theirs is a hazardous occupation: often criticism aimed at the President falls short and bursts directly on them...
...debut as a rodeo rider, Monty Milhous, 19, was ignominiously tossed by a Brahma bull called Old Brindle. Earlier in the Fresno, Calif., show President Nixon's second cousin had another brief tangle-five seconds of the required eight-second ride-with a mean old mule named Khrushchev...