Nixon

[Seb Thirlway]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Oy <annoy at innocent.com>


>rj wrote:
>>pm
>>> Hard to conceive of any American writer having legal problems
over
>>> anything he might say about a President.
>>
>>I'd say the libel laws would apply, particularly in the civil
courts.
>>They do here, anyway, as a recent case reported in the media
>>demonstrated.  . . .
>
>No one of minimal sanity or maturity would have wanted to mess
with Nixon
>or his pals who clearly played for keeps. There is no assurance
of who was
>on who's payroll nor is there any certainty of who was running
the US
>government at the time in question. Think spooks, ex-spooks,
politics, drug
>culture and geography.

Things must have changed....or am I ignorant of US events?  I'm
thinking of that opera "Nixon in China", Richard M. was I think
alive when it was first performed (about '89 I think), and
doesn't come out of it too badly, but Kissinger is satirised to
within an inch of his life.  (he also gets to deliver the most
memorable line ever to be sung in opera: "Premier, where's the
toilet?").  Did they ever see it, I wonder?