On Thursday, July 31, 2014 9:13:19 PM UTC-4, John Levine wrote:   
      
      
   > >Is that kinda like sayin' that John Wilkes Booth was a   
   > >pretty good actor, except for "that other stuff".....?   
      
   > Yup.  And Richard Nixon.   
      
   Nixon was a terrible actor.  Indeed, that was a contributor to his downfall,   
   in that he thought he was -acting- 'presidential' when he gave speeches to the   
   country, but the country saw through it.   
      
   (Nixon did meet his wife Pat in a community theatre group.  His granddaughter   
   is an actress today.)   
      
   As an aside, John Dean and others are running around giving speeches and   
   touting new book they just wrote on Nixon and Watergate:  (Dean was in Phila   
   last night).   
      
   http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/20140731_F   
   rty_years_past_Watergate__authors_add_to_Nixon-era_literature.html   
      
      
   Nixon did start Amtrak.  Didn't give very much funding--far less than it   
   needed--but at least it was a start.  DOT Secretary Volpe, a strong supporter   
   of Amtrak, was crucified by other conservatives for doing so.   
      
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