And Dick Offered Names Of A Few Good Plumbers
If you believe Oliver Stone (line forms to the right, er, left), Richard Nixon had something to do with John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
But according to a new book, “Kennedy and Nixon,” by Christopher Matthews, JFK and Tricky Dick were actually quite chummy in their earlier days.
In the mid-1940s, the book says, Kennedy told friends that Nixon was “going places,” invited him to his office birthday parties and contributed $1,000 to his 1950 Senate campaign. Nixon cried after hearing Kennedy might die following back surgery in 1954.
And before Nixon left on a fact-finding trip to Europe, Kennedy gave him a list of women to call in Paris. Nixon’s secretary, Dorothy Cox, said she didn’t think her boss, who was married, took the numbers because “he was far too embarrassed.”
Loose talk
David Letterman, on Bill Clinton saying he would punch columnist William Safire in the mouth if he wasn’t president: “And I’m thinking, you know, Safire can probably wait around until November.”
We’re waiting for him to do ‘Hercules Unplugged’
Steve Reeves turns 70 today.
He wouldn’t even do it in dress rehearsal
Bob Hoskins, who portrays alleged homosexual J. Edgar Hoover in “Nixon,” declined to do scenes dressed in women’s clothes, which Hoover was reportedly fond of wearing. “Oliver said, ‘Here are the clothes; if you want to dress up in those scenes, do so,”’ Hoskins told the Advocate. However, he said, “It wouldn’t have been believable.”
Must be still hung up on health care reform
According to the Washington Post, at an impromptu party thrown by Vernon Jordan for Hillary Clinton to celebrate the publication of her new book, “It Takes a Village,” presidential adviser George Stephanopoulos “distinguished himself as the only attendee wearing Doc Martens (shoes).”
Remember, many heads of state are edible
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who tips the scales at almost 300 pounds, and his wife have written a cookbook called “Culinary Excursion Through German Lands.” Among the 350 regional recipes is one for stuffed Kohlkopf, or cabbage head.
‘American Grandstand’ to ‘American Bandstand’
You couldn’t exactly call it a trend, but a radio station in tiny Indiana, Pa., has dropped Rush Limbaugh’s radio show and replaced it with pop music from the 1950s and ‘60s. Said the station owner: “He’s not as popular as he had been.”
Which sort of sums up the budget negotiations
Republican congressman Sonny Bono suffered a deep gash on his chin, requiring 11 stitches, after colliding with another skier at a Los Angeles-area hill recently. Said Bono: “I hit somebody or they hit me, so it was their fault.”
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