The Begatting of a President

[Terry]

This is the LP version of the political parable by Myron Roberts, Lincoln Hayes and Sasha Gilien, from 1969.

Part 1 http://www.box.net/shared/lxjbm8vy59
Part 2 http://www.box.net/shared/vr6i3dzug8

[Terry]

Nothing to do with Welles, unless you're taking the Simon Callow approach (in volume one of his biography, if not volume two) of detailing the landscape which would have informed our protagonist at a particular point in time (in this case, late 1973.)

I thought Glenn would be bemused, at any rate.

http://www.archive.org/details/RichardN ... -20Oct1973

http://www.archive.org/details/RichardN ... -17Nov1973

[Glenn Anders]

Thanks, Hadji:

I was impressed by how crisp and logical the reporting of that evening and its aftermath was, how the reportage cut through what we now call "the spin" to the elementals of the Impeachment crisis.

We are really in a far worse crisis today, but the Congress is either too timid or too venal to force action.

Orson Welles did his part, in Nixon's case, by putting out the "The Begatting of the President."

The flavor of that LP is available here:

http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=263603

Glenn

[Wellesnet]

Those links are no longer valid, but it is on Youtube:
Part1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0anrQjb62pU

Part2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrRH4nArBLw