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Show Nixonhowp r Money 'unsells war "Nixon's the one, yes, Nixon's the one, To build a brand new wonderful world. He's the undisputed voice of the thinking man. He's everybody's choice for a better plan. " From Bob Hope Show at the White House with chorus girls and a go-go dancer. The curtain just won't go down. The performance goes on and on. The scenes are too long, the drama poorly acted in terrifying scenes, that ordinarily would require hard concentration and tense emotional involvement. I am growing bored. I cry occasionally for the victims of the hero's daring ploys. He is an anti-hero in my mind the victims are too real. The actor is Richard Millhouse Nixon, the performance is Vietnam and he's playing it like a football player, not an actor. "That's one for the Gipper." Well, Emile de Antonio has cast "The President" in another role. He plays Millhouse, in "Millhouse, A White Comedy." Millhouse is a politician. "I was in Richard N ixon s Sass." writes Marjone H dreth Knighton'Richard took me to the Junior-Senior Prom...we..ah..knew each other very well...danc,ng was not allowed on the Whittier Campus. When it came time to choose a new president of the Whittier studentbody, I suppose Richard decided this was a very good issue. It's what everybody wanted. ..and while he wasn't a dancer himself and probably cared nothing about it, he knew the students did. So that was the issue he campaigned on, and of course he won." He learned his lesson well and spent the rest of his life "picking up on issues." But Millhouse always had a clear conscience. In 1952 he said, "My fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a man whose honesty and in-teg.Jntegrity in-teg.Jntegrity has been questioned...Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime we have got is honestly ours." Well he was discovered in "The House Committee on Un-American Activities." He became president with a mere $24 million spent on his campaign. Gore Vidal wrote a play called "An evening with .the President..." and about the play he says that "It's a horrible thing to do to the man, make him use his own words on stage." You can see his amazing performance per-formance Monday, Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. in the Capitol Theater, 46 West and 2nd So. The tickets are $2 ($5 for those who can afford more). It is being presented by United Front To End The War. And the money that is be used to buy Vietnam air war cour; local area television y mercials were produced the war" to inform fc,: Nixon's escalation of tin" War. Robert Seta,,,': special guest speaker fe |