Strait is the gate
Christopher Hitchens, 21 July 1994
Watergate: The Corruption and Fall of Richard Nixon
by Fred Emery.
Cape, 448 pp., £20, May 1994,0 224 03694 7 Show More
by Fred Emery.
Cape, 448 pp., £20, May 1994,
The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House
by H.R. Haldeman.
Putnam, 698 pp., $27.50, May 1994,0 399 13962 1 Show More
by H.R. Haldeman.
Putnam, 698 pp., $27.50, May 1994,
“... correctly and humanely observed, a man is not under oath when delivering a funeral oration. But as Kissinger himself brushed away a tear, this ceremony took on more the aspect of a Central Committee interment, where black limousines and dark-spectacled bodyguards wait to hustle the nomenklatura through the crowd after a feast of lies (and, perhaps, after the ... ”