A silly poll

[redbird]

In the fine tradition of catamorphism, and prompted by a post to statements:



[Poll #504678]

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That's Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Maximum John Sirica. The wit and wisdom of Sam Ervin. The Uher tape recorder. Katie Graham and the big wringer. Martha Mitchell's kidnapping. "This statement is now inoperative." CREEP. Doonesbury. So many delightful memories.

Re: That's Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Your subject line is the one I'm repeating, too.
*grin*

Re: That's Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Or, in the revisionist version, "That's Flawed! Flawed! Flawed!"

My second-favortie Doonesbury strip ever. The favorite one being the one that ends with Lacey Davenport opining, "We've all behaved so terribly."

But boy, there are so many.

I think I need a Lacey Davenport icon.

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

I picked the Lovelace I considered most interesting, not the one that fit the theme.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I'm on a freeway named after Earl Warren almost every other day.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Nitpick: Isn't the song lyric "Old enough to know what's right and young enough NOT to choose it?"

[redbird]

So it would appear, despite my memories.

Polls are not editable, however.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

Ada, Linda, and Richard, but not the only slightly misspelled Miguelito?

[purpler-spirit.livejournal.com]

It dawned on me sometime between clicking "submit" and viewing the answers that it probably had something to do with Watergate...and then realized "Checkers" probably wasn't referring to the board game but Nixon's dog, right? :-) After a quick scan of recent LJ posts, I guess you can tell I'm not only behind on national news but behind on my LJ reading too! Thanks for motivating me to get up-to-date! :-)

[zsero.livejournal.com]

And my first thought on seeing "Checkers" was the UK's Camp David, spelled the USAn way; only after I got the theme did I think of the dog.

You do know, don't you, that Nixon never claimed to have a secret plan to end the war?

[redbird]

I assume you can document this assertion?

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Here's William Safire (http://www.bebeyond.com/LearnEnglish/BeAD/Readings/SecretPlan.htm), who was in a position to know:

Years later, when a New York Times columnist attributed that direct quote to Nixon, a White House speechwriter challenged him to find the quote in anything taken down by pencil or recorder at the time. The pundit searched high and low and had to admit the supposed remark was unsourceable. (Look, the Nixon speechwriter was me and the columnist was my current colleague, Tony Lewis; I didn't have to research this.)

Ray Price (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/opinion/L13NIXO.html) says much the same thing:

We on the Nixon staff immediately pointed out, to all who would listen, that he had not claimed a "plan." Nixon himself told reporters that if he had one, he would have given it to President Johnson.

[redbird]

I googled a bit. According to the Christian Science Monitor, which frankly I have more faith in than anyone whose qualification is that he worked for a known criminal, the reason it's unsourceable is that Nixon said this "off the record" to a group of newspaper editors during the campaign, with the goal of influencing their editorial writing.

I am now reminded of Russell Baker, discussing (a few years later) the use of unnamed sources: the reporters would get their briefings, attributed to "a high State Department official traveling on the Secretary's plane," say "Thank you, Henry," and go write their stories.

[rainliver.livejournal.com]

The alien jihad is preparing their attack on the quiz for being too American. :)

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

Wow, great quiz. Makes me wish I'd been born just a little bit earlier, for better understanding of what had been going on at the time.

Crazy(and too late! too late!!)Soph

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I owe a lot to my father's Doonesbury collections.