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Blind Ambition 184: It was just one more example of the Watergate tar baby: the only thing worse than nominating Gray would have been not nominating him.at tar baby, n.
Blind Ambition 184: It was just one more example of the Watergate tar baby: the only thing worse than nominating Gray would have been not nominating him. Blind Ambition 336: ‘Jimmy, I guess maybe you’ve lost track of my man now that you’re all balled up trying to get those tapes’ .at balled-up, adj.
Blind Ambition 228: You do that and there’s a damn good chance they’ll pull you right in front of the grand jury and indict your ass. That’s the way the ball game is played.at ballgame, n.
Blind Ambition 14: [No]w I was relishing the glamour without [. . .] watching police bang heads.at bang heads (v.) under bang, v.1
Blind Ambition 144: ‘I’m going to stay on until we put Watergate to bed’.at put to bed (v.) under bed, n.
Blind Ambition 5: To borrow my lawyer’s phrase: ‘I’m ready to get on the box’—take a lie-detector test.at box, n.1
Blind Ambition 49: [B]urning himself out working briefly for Henry Kissinger.at burn out, v.
Blind Ambition 173: I climbed into my Scotch bottle in the safety of my home.at climb into a bottle (v.) under climb, v.
Blind Ambition 186: The power fix, the high which I had pursued all my adult life, was wearing off. I was coming down.at come down, v.3
Blind Ambition 357: The cover-up had been a stupid error. Lying about it had been deadly for [Nixon]. [...] He’d been caught in his lies, so why didn’t he confess?at cover-up, n.
Blind Ambition 139: I [...] chastised myself for having seemed naïve and guppylike at times, but I knew I was learning.at guppy, adj.
Blind Ambition 240: My man is not going to hang out here alone. You owe him that.at hang, v.4
(con. 1971) Blind Ambition 72: Nixon speechwriter Patrick J.] Buchanan, who popularized the term ‘political hardball,’ argued for such [quasi-illegal] tactics.at hardball, n.1
Blind Ambition 299: ‘You’ve really been ripping up the pea patch down here,’ [prosecutor Jim] Neal said sarcastically.at tear up the pea patch, v.
Blind Ambition 112: He sighed and said he needed a drink [...] and the two pulled down heavy portions of a midday cocktail.at pull, v.
Blind Ambition 249: I think it’s time I rattled the cage a little bit and let them know the cover-up is really over.at rattle one’s cage (v.) under rattle, v.
Blind Ambition 343: ‘How do you feel about that?’ ‘I think it shits,’ I said.at shit, v.
Blind Ambition 244: Mitchell nodded kindly and I spilled over even more.at spill, v.
Blind Ambition 233: They know I’ll never spin them, so they’ve agreed to an arrangement whereby you can talk to them off the record.at spin, v.1
Blind Ambition 144: ‘Put him down. He’ll either take a walk or vote with us’.at take a walk up back (v.) under walk, n.
Blind Ambition 264: Maybe the President would thank me for what I had done. Maybe he was plotting to screw me to the wall.at hang someone to the wall (v.) under wall, n.
Blind Ambition 139: He was literally wasted. There was no energy in his voice.at wasted, adj.
Blind Ambition 14: Bob Haldeman ‘coordinating the whole ball of wax’.at the whole ball of wax (n.) under wax, n.2
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