Chicanery’s far too refined a C-word. Try corruption, cravenness, calumny, criminality, carnival, communist . . .
A friend of mine who worked in a paper mill gave me a copy of G. Gordon Liddy’s book WILL that he’d rescued from the pulper. It had an addendum of material that Liddy added after he’d read Silent Coup—so then I got a copy of Silent Coup and read it. WOW. It totally over-wrote all of the “accepted mythology” of Watergate. I think it’s highly amusing that John Dean has failed in his lawsuits against Liddy et. al., who have exposed him. It always makes me sick when the talk shows bring out Dean to comment on some Watergate anniversary.