NIXON: What if anything do you know about the Roth book? HALDEMAN: Oh, a fair amount. NIXON: Who is responsible? The Roth thing I notice is reviewed in Newsweek, which might indicate that they might be very much behind that.
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NIXON: Roth is of course a Jew. HALDEMAN: Oh yes … He’s brilliant in a sick way. NIXON: Oh, I know — HALDEMAN: Everything he’s written has been sick
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COLSON: The only effect it will have is to make people sympathetic to you … The smear attacks on presidents turn people off … NIXON: Roth is a bad man. COLSON: Oh yes. NIXON: He’s a horrible moral leper.
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HALDEMAN: Well it’s interesting … that Newsweek is the only one that’s really built it up positively and the Saturday Review shoots in down. NIXON: The New Republic does too.
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Richard Nixon was one of our most unintentionally funny presidents. Quite a feat considering the man was as humorless as a badger.
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One of the few Roth books I haven't read. May add it to my summer reading list.
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Only the names have changed.
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