Word: nixonization
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...could slake your curiosity and amass opinions that would sustain hours of cocktail-party chatter. Celebrities stood in line. Comedians worked the fellatio film into their monologues. Johnny Carson: "This is kinda strange country, isn't it? Judges can see Deep Throat but they can't listen to those [Nixon] tapes." Bob Hope: "I went to see Deep Throat cause I'm fond of animal pictures. I thought it was about giraffes." Bob Hope made a Deep Throat joke on TV! It was like a papal blessing...
...Fenton-Barbato documentary makes much of the judicial and law-enforcement politics surrounding Deep Throat. The Nixon Administration tried prosecuting the film from every angle -not surprising, since it was a popular porn movie produced by the Mafia. One federal agent quoted a Peraino underling as saying of the Deep Throat take: "We've got so much money ... we don't even count it any more.... We weigh it." The movie reports that "Deep Throat was made for just $25,000. It grossed more than $600 million." (That last stat is a flexible one, like a guy's street-corner...
That summer, Nixon, a freshman member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, presided over the Alger Hiss case--a gaudy, sensational, two-year-long pageant of congressional hearings and court trials that would bring the cold war home, divide Americans and launch the young Nixon on a trajectory toward the White House...
...there had been no Hiss case, if Johnson had lost, if Kennedy had told the truth about his disease--history would have been different. The dramas turned on secrets. Nixon probed the hidden communist lives of Hiss and Whittaker Chambers. Kennedy locked the truth of his medical condition in a secret compartment. Johnson went to desperate lengths to prevent the disputed ballot box from being opened...
FROM THE BEST YEAR OF THEIR LIVES: KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND NIXON IN 1948: LEARNING THE SECRETS OF POWER, BY LANCE MORROW. COPYRIGHT ©2005 BY LANCE MORROW. TO BE PUBLISHED BY BASIC BOOKS...