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...mismanagement, however, was not military but political. The argument was over who was going to cross the canal first and who would be chosen to do it, not how it should be done. I told them I am commander of 15,000 troops and I have no tune to screw you now because I have to screw the Egyptians. Now I have no tune to fight with you politically, but when the war is over you will all have to wear helmets...
...Anybody can screw, see. It doesn't take any intelligence, it doesn't take anything." So says the social worker as she counsels a pretty, black-skinned prostitute, who is barely...
Aside from these specific acts, the Watergate hearings produced evidence of an alarming atmosphere around the President. Whether it was John Ehrlichman's defense of spying on the drinking and sexual habits of politicians, John Dean's advocacy of using agencies of Government to "screw our political enemies," or Bob Haldeman's desire to "put out the story" on Communist money falsely alleged to be supporting Democratic candidates, an amorality prevailed that went well beyond normal standards of politics. It degraded the White House...
...form of analysis for him; almost a religion. He could pick no stronger voice for himself than that of the real alcoholic crying for help. But because he is Alan Severance, who, he says, is suffering from severe delusions, Recovery poses a new turn of the proverbial screw. The novel projects itself so far into Berryman's personal reality that you are never sure if Severance isn't some unreal phantom of his self-deception...
...project never seems to have got off the ground, but the idea, as Dean put it in a memorandum to Presidential Advisers H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman at the time, was to find ways in which "we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies." The lists, most of which apparently emanated from Charles W. Colson and his staff, included a bewildering jumble of names both famous and obscure...