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"Example: J. Edgar Hoover died in May and his body lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda. There was a big anti-war demonstration scheduled on the Capitol steps. Among the speakers, Hunt recalled, were to be Fonda, Kunstler, and even Ellsberg. The times were such, and Hoover was hated so much by the anti-wars, that there was actual fear the crowd might be stirred to race inside and turn over the Hoover catafalque! That's Hunt's story, who says G. Gordon Liddy relayed the White House concerns and asked him to set up a counter to it. So, again the Miami Cubans, a dozen or so were summoned up to shout "traitor" at Ellsberg and, if they needed to, to retreat inside and protect the Hoover remains from desecration Today it sounds like a bad movie script. One you couldn't sell. But then it was 'living in America.'

Good Lord, Uncle. Given all that, you surely don't observe Watergate anniversaries.

"In a way I am this year."

How so?

"I am going down to the Cheerful Cherry to see a new act. A pole dancer debuts tonight named 'The Runway Bride.'"