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...private conversation." Half an hour later, Ford said that "Earl Butz has been and continues to be a close personal friend and a man who loves his country and all it represents." Accepting the resignation of "this good and decent man," Ford declared, had been "one of the saddest decisions of my presidency...
Perhaps the saddest account is that of Brock Chester, voted most popular member of his senior class. Chester committed suicide at 24, with no explanation, no warning. Medved and Wallechinsky interviewed his mother and his high school girl friend, trying to fathom his motive; the conclusion they reach, that he could neither live up to his popularity in school or accept his post-graduation anonymity, is couched in his mother's words, making it a lot more palatable than a slick judgment on someone the authors barely knew could have been. The episode may substantiate Medved's idea that Palisades...
Diary of a Madman. Gogol may have been the only writer to really understand the importance of noses in human interaction. In fact, one of the saddest stories I know is connected--rather painfully--to Gogol's own probiscus. He always had a feeling that noses were symbolic, and extremely influential in the development of one's personality. At the same time, however, he was fairly neurotic. Near the end of his life he began to believe that a spirit in his stomach was keeping him from eating, and he got thinner and thinner until finally his archaic doctors decided...
...overall tone of the album is near despair, and its saddest song is "Stoned at the Jukebox." When Williams sings of "loving that hurtin' music, 'cause I been hurting too," it seems to come from the heart-wrenching realization that Hank Williams, Jr. can never be entirely accepted for his own music, no matter how good that music...
...said goodbye to the Nixons was the saddest day of my life," she says. "The happiest was when Liberty had her puppies. I was on the floor beside her all afternoon." She still has not found a ghost. One night the chanting of protesters in Lafayette Square filled the darkened White House and she found it "very eerie." But no apparition walked the halls. Another time a thumping on the ceiling turned out to be one of her sons dropping the end of his pool cue on the carpet...