Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just about then a fictional replay of the Nixon tragedy-Washington: Behind Closed Doors- was holding 50 million Americans in front of their TV screens. The best line of the day came out of this electronic novel. Andy Griffith, playing a retiring President patterned on Lyndon Johnson, cast a wise eye on Jason Robards, the fictional Nixon, and advised, "It's plenty hard to lose the affection and trust of those people. But let me tell you something, lose it once by God you never get it back...
A.E.I.'s influence, ironically, is being magnified by the G.O.P.'s defeat in last year's presidential election. Out-of-office Republicans have been flocking to A.E.I. in such numbers that, echoing a joke often made about Brookings during the Nixon-Ford years, the institute could be described as almost a Republican government in exile. Unlike Brookings, where most appointments are full time, A.E.I. has only a small core of a dozen program directors and six resident scholars, and depends heavily on a large and highly prestigious group of outside consultants and experts. Paul W. McCracken, once...
...A.E.I. is no party-line outfit. Wiliam Fellner, a onetime Republican member of the Council of Economic Advisers and now an institute associate, once wrote a report contending that the Nixon Administration's initial fiscal and monetary policies were overly restrictive. This year another A.E.I. report sided with President Carter's decision to stop the Clinch River nuclear breeder-reactor project-in opposition to the views of Distinguished Fellow Ford, who wanted continued development...
...truth of Behind Closed Doors is Robards' extraordinary capturing of the persona of Richard Nixon. But aside from that, distortions abound. No evidence exists, for example, that John F. Kennedy ever personally ordered political assassinations abroad, as the show has it. The miniseries has the Washington Post discovering malfeasance long before the Watergate breakin; it did not. The video version of the burglary by White House plumbers of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist becomes a break-in at a St. Louis courthouse; instead of psychiatric records, the squad is after police records. The fictional Lyndon Johnson...
Investigative Reporter Bob Woodward says that the miniseries "illustrates the precise reason why Carl Bernstein and I refused to sell movie or TV rights to The Final Days." Both feared what dramatization might do to their account of Richard Nixon's resignation; having been participants in All the President's Men, they felt they could exercise some control over their first book. Woodward also objects to The Company, John Ehrlichman's novel on which the miniseries is loosely based. Says Woodward: "The events, the characters are so thinly veiled. If a work is fiction, then there...