Jailbird (1979)
“Nixon, having become President of the United States, would suddenly wonder what had become of me. He would almost certainly never have become President, of course, if he had not become a national figure as the discoverer and hounder of the mendacious Leland Clewes. His emissaries would find me, as I say, helping my wife with her decorating business, which she ran out of our little brick bungalow in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Through them, he would offer me a job.
How did I feel about it? Proud and ...useful. Richard. M. Nixon wasn’t merely Richard M. Nixon, after all. He was also the President of the United States of America, a nation I ached to serve again. Should I have refused—on the grounds that America wasn’t really my kind of America just then?
Should I have persisted, as a point of honor, in being to all practical purposes a basket case in Chevy Chase instead?
No.
And now Clyde Carter, the prison guard I had been waiting for so long on my cot, came to get me at last. Emil Larkin had by then given up on me and limped away.MoreLess
Through them, he would offer me a job.
How did I feel about it? Proud and ...useful. Richard. M. Nixon wasn’t merely Richard M. Nixon, after all. He was also the President of the United States of America, a nation I ached to serve again. Should I have refused—on the grounds that America wasn’t really my kind of America just then?
Should I have persisted, as a point of honor, in being to all practical purposes a basket case in Chevy Chase instead?
No.
And now Clyde Carter, the prison guard I had been waiting for so long on my cot, came to get me at last. Emil Larkin had by then given up on me and limped away.MoreLess
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