Volume 21, Number 10 · June 13, 1974
The Kingdom of Heaven
By Garry Wills
All the President's Men
by Carl Bernstein, by Bob Woodward
Simon and Schuster, 349 pp., $8.95
In his 1968 campaign, Nixon did a whistlestop tour of the Midwest, for 'color.' His advance men recruited off-duty stewardesses, wearing 'Nixonette' garb on the train, to jump off at each stop, run back to the Nixon car, and start cheerleading. One girl who got bored with this routine just sat in the dining car nursing her drink and complaining that the Secret Service men were even more flirtatious than journalists. 'What about Nixon's staff?' I asked—'Do they make any passes?' 'Oh no,' she answered. 'They're prettier than we are.' She was looking out the window at Dwight Chapin. 'They're all such good little boys.' She did not know about ratfucking.
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