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...does he contend that he is. What he does contend is that as President the law can be applied to him in only one way, and that is by impeachment." But a decision against Nixon would inevitably affect impeachment, St. Clair warned the court, and that is a political "thicket" into which the Justices should not intrude...
Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us opens with a gentle pan from the hazy skyline of a Mississippi morning across a field of grass along the tracks where a chain gang's flatcar rolls through a thicket, and to the pond where two convicts paddle a boat ashore and escape into a car which pulls into view as the camera completes its circle. All the way around, it pans a whole expansive environment, a distance of soft green and damp air which will dominate the film, cushioning the violence of its bank robber heroes like their own lonely needs...
...Tuttle & Co., in 1969 recognized that only a well-connected Frenchman could sweep away the bureaucratic snarls and inspire the confidence of timid French financiers. The firm took on Aaron, the president of a small bank, as co-developer. Aristocratic, war-decorated Aaron, 57, steered the project through a thicket of government regulations. He also helped to stitch together an all-French syndicate of 40 banks, insurance companies and pension funds to finance it. Aaron not only received a fee for his services but also will share in the building's profits; he declines to say what his total...
...various co-defendants at bargain prices. The purchases purportedly were made for cash, but the SEC says that they were actually financed by loans from U.S. National. To hide the fact that Smith was on all sides of the transactions, the SEC says, the loans were channeled through a thicket of holding companies that were also under Smith's control...
MOST OF THE BOOK is an over-written compendium of mock-heroics: our hero was scared one night, "I wanted to cry into the pillow of my bed, but there was no pillow. So I cried right onto the sheet." But after pruning the thicket of countless noble deeds, the book does contain a core of political analysis, centered around anti-Communism as its primary tenet. The Soviet betrayal of socialism is the greatest crime in history for the promoters of this brand of politics, and the Soviety offspring, the nations in what was once known as the Communist Bloc...