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Richard Nixon is telling David Frost about the day in March 1973 when he realized he had to fire his chief domestic advisor, John Ehrlichman, for abetting the Watergate cover-up - or, rather, for being fingered by the press for doing it. Tears glimmer in the ex-President's eyes, then he closes them to contain the pain as he staggers through his reciting of the conversation. "I said, 'You know, John, when I went to bed last night,' I said, 'I hoped,' I said, 'I hoped, I almost prayed I wouldn't wake up this morning.'" He grimaces...
...sell themselves to the American people. They came across as cranky or boring or stiff, and voters chose the man (Bill Clinton, George W. Bush) who could convincingly play the good ol' boy with southern or Southwest charm. John McCain, who'd been so funny and sunny with his press gang on the Straight Talk Express, turned crotchety in the general campaign and lost to another Harvard smoothie. McCain-Obama was Nixon-Kennedy all over again...
...lifted her shaking hands and cupped Felicity’s face. Her touch was gentle. “Oh my lady,” she whispered. “Forgive me.”Felicity found herself trembling, too. She turned her face away, and Roxanna leaned forward to press her lip against Felicity’s cheek. A penitent kiss, she thought: the kiss of peace. But at the last moment Felicity turned her face and Roxanna’s kiss landed clumsily on Felicity’s mouth.Soft lip brushed against soft lip. Both women froze. And then...
...tickets have each recently expressed mock concern about Harvard’s fiscal crisis. Waite temporarily suspended his campaign yesterday, issuing a press release arguing that “this is a time not for politics but statesmanship.” Koenigs said that “we shouldn’t even have the debate on Thursday, but should focus on getting that $8 billion back...
...moment has been made all the more delicate by the intricacies - and mysteries - of the investigation of the Mumbai massacre. Meeting the press in Islamabad, Rice shied away from pointing a finger at Pakistan, saying only that Pakistan had a "special responsibility" in dealing with the aftermath of the attacks. This was despite the claims of an anonymous American defense official in the New York Times linking the militant Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which allegedly trained the Mumbai attackers, to ex-officers in Pakistan's intelligence service. Indian officials believe that the LeT masterminded these attacks, as well...