Garry Wills once managed to write a piece about No, No, Nanette that wound up in an attack on J. Edgar Hoover, which is pretty good going even in the company he keeps these days, but Wills is a bushleaguer compared to the hardcore Nixon-haters. A couple of weeks ago Tricia Cox invited her father to the Washington preview of a new musical. He went, he liked it, and guessed that the show would be a hit, maybe not with New Yorkers but with the “out-of-towners” who are getting tired “of all that far-out stuff.”
Shiver our timbers, Nixon likes it! In most critical circles (not Clive Barnes, to his credit) that was it. Nixon’s “out-of-towners,” wrote Jack Kroll of Newsweek, “is
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