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That is not true of Nixon Son-in-Law David Eisenhower, 28, who says that he had two sessions with the reporters as they researched the book. "I've been used as authority for their overall theme that Mr. Nixon was a basket case at the end of Watergate," he says. "I don't think it was a bad-faith distortion, but I think they were a little single-minded." Eisenhower contends that he "kept waiting for Mr. Nixon to crack" and he did not, but that the book portrays Nixon "as a kind of broken man-emotionally...
...existent "Research and Information" committee. The money was transferred to 23 retired miners, who cashed the checks and kicked the money back to Pass. Through a District 19 field agent named Bill Prater, he contacted another retired miner, Silous Huddleston. Huddleston enlisted his son-in-law, Paul Gilly, who rounded up the other members of the murder crew...
Pass could not have picked a more inept crew of murderers. Gilly, Huddleston's son-in-law, had a third grade education. A Cleveland, Ohio house painter, he also ran a low-life restaurant which was a gathering place for burglars trying to fence stolen goods. It was from among these burglars he recruited the killers. Apparently the cash involved was not important; he thought if he killed Yablonski, his wife Annette would love him more...
...scene he climbs into a huge piano with a wrathful countess; in another he flies over Germany on a bombing mission. His crew: a bevy of ex-mistresses. Liszt ends as he begins, Candide with piano, an innocent exploited by everyone he encounters, especially Wagner (who became his son-in-law). Lest the audience wonder about the personality of Wagner, the film transforms him into Dracula, literally sucking the blood of his first patron, then into Dr. Frankenstein, sole creator of a monster named Hitler...
Throughout the Western world, he will perhaps be best remembered for his appearance before the League of Nations in Geneva on June 30, 1936. His country had been overrun by the Blackshirt battalions of Benito Mussolini, whose son-in-law, Count Ciano, ecstatically described the beauty of "bombs opening like red blossoms" upon the Ethiopian highlands. Hundreds of thousands of his barefoot soldiers had been killed by Fascist bombs and mustard gas. A small, bearded, hawk-faced figure with blazing black eyes, he stood at the lectern and declared: "I am here today to claim the justice that...