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...plans to stop writing. Besides, there is a big story coming up. According to what he calls Strout's Law, "There is a major scandal in American political life every 50 years: Grant's in 1873, Teapot Dome in 1923, Watergate in 1973." Advises Strout: "Nail down your seats...
...here was Larry O'Brien, a secret Hughes lobbyist?and no one cared enough to dig out the proof about O'Brien's connection with Hughes. I believe it is almost certain that Nixon asked Colson to help him 'nail' O'Brien. Colson naturally turned to Hunt. And Hunt tried to do it by tapping O'Brien's telephone at Watergate...
...Writes Haldeman: "I believe it is almost certain that Nixon asked Colson to help him nail O'Brien. Colson naturally turned to Hunt. [E. Howard Hunt, a retired CIA agent used by Colson as an investigator.] And Hunt tried to do it by tapping O'Brien's telephone at the Watergate...
...know one thing. I can't stand an FBI interrogation of Colson ... Colson can talk about the President, if he cracks. You know I was on Colson's tail for months to nail Larry O'Brien on the Hughes deal. Colson told me he was going to get the information I wanted one way or the other. And that was O'Brien's office they were bugging, wasn't it? And who's behind it? Colson's boy Hunt. Christ. Colson called [Magruder] and got the whole operation started. Right from...
...front teeth, causing the gap that has become his trademark. Spinks' parents separated some 13 years ago, and his mother taught Bible classes at home while keeping the impoverished family going with welfare money and maternal grit. His father once punished Leon by suspending him from a nail and administering a beating, and regularly assured his son-and anyone else who would listen-that he would "never amount to anything." Recalls Spinks: "That became my thing. To be somebody...