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Painting of Pres. Nixon and advisers, by Franklin McMahon


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1972





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The reporters waited.  ----------------------  [excerpt, All The President's Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward - Copyright 1974 - Simon & Schuster Paperbacks]  --------------------  Several days later, on August 16, Clark MacGregor





met with a select group of White House reporters and made the first public attempt to shift the responsibility to Liddy. 


While serving as CRP's [CRP = Committee to Re-Elect the President] finance counsel, MacGregor said, Liddy had spent campaign funds on his own initiative "for the purpose of determining what to do if the crazies made an attack on the President" at the Republican convention.




Later that afternoon on the telephone, MacGregor was angered by Woodward's attempt to get a fuller explanation.  "I have no idea why the departed Gordon Liddy wanted cash," MacGregor shouted.  "It's impossible for me to tell. ...  I never met Liddy. ...  I don't know what's going on."




Woodward suggested that MacGregor was implying that he was out of touch with the campaign he was supposed to be running.


"If you print that, our relationship is terminated," MacGregor said, and added:  "I'm not threatening you.  I'm just telling you what will happen."


MacGregor was one of the few Nixon administration officials who had a reputation for being friendly with the press. ...  ----------------------------  [end, excerpt]  ----------------


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[Spoken]


Okay, so your heart is broken
You sit around mopin'
Cryin' and cryin'
You say you're even thinkin' about dyin'
Well, before you do anything rash, dig this


[singing]


Everybody plays the fool --


Sometime


There's no exception to the rule


Listen, baby, it may be factual, it may be cruel
I ain't lyin' -- everybody plays the fool


Falling in love is such an easy thing to do
And there's no guarantee that the one you love
Is gonna love you




Oh-oh-oh, lovin' eyes they cannot see
A certain person could never be
Love runs deeper than any ocean
You can cloud your mind with emotion




Everybody plays the fool --


Sometime --


There's no exception to the rule
Listen baby, it may be factual, may be cruel
I want to tell ya
Everybody plays the fool




How can you help it when the music starts to play
And your ability to reason is swept away


Oh-oh-oh, heaven on earth is all you see
You're out of touch with reality
And now you cry but when you do
Next time around someone cries for you




Everybody plays the fool --


Sometime --


They use your heart like a tool
Listen, baby, they never tell you so in school
I want to say it again
Everybody plays the fool


Listen to me, baby


Everybody plays the fool, sometime
(No exception)  no exception to the rule
It may be factual, may be cruel,


Sometime --


But everybody plays the fool
Listen, listen, baby --
Everybody plays the fool


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{"Everybody Plays the Fool" - The Main Ingredient.  Recorded:  1972, at RCA's Studio C, New York City, New York.  Genre:  Soul, R&B.  Songwriters:  J.R. Bailey, Rudy Clark, Ken Williams.  Producers:  Luther Simmons, Tony Silvester.  Released:  1972.  Album:  Bitter Sweet.}


~~  On Google, type in:


everybody plays the fool, the main ingredient


and Play.
     



The Watergate Complex, 1972


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