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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015130)" |
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| In the meantime, I am, at long last, completely at peace with myself. |
| It has been worth all the struggle. |
| Postscript: |
| After |
| "A Sneak Preview of Richard Nixon' s Memoirs" was |
| published, syndicated columnist Liz Smith-who hadn't seen that |
| piece wrote that H.R. Haldeman had been in the Oval Office with Nixon, |
| and that his trousers were down to his ankles. Hoping to smoke out the |
| truth, I retyped one page of the manuscript, inserting a phrase (shown in |
| italics) in this sentence: "When the incident was over, I simply returned to |
| my desk, and although the tension of vulnerability was still in the air and |
| my trousers were still around my ankles, we resumed our discussion as if |
| nothing had occurred." I then photocopied the manuscript and sent it to |
| Liz Smith. I had assumed she would check with her source. Instead, she |
| wrote in her column that she had been fooled by me, implying that her |
| source had based that revelation on my article. Somehow my hoax on Liz |
| Smith backfired. I had become a victim of my own satirical prophecy. |
| In his memoirs, I had Nixon insisting that Watergate was a setup to |
| get rid of him as president. A decade later, Nixon himself made that claim |
| in a network television interview. Furthermore, Haldeman in his book, The |
| Ends of Power, would reveal that Nixon used code words when talking |
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