Dorothy emerges as a hero to Howie’s disgraced band of political criminals, and this is the thanks she gets?
On the afternoon of December 8, 1972, United Airlines Flight 553 from Washington, D.C. to Omaha, Nebraska via Chicago crashed from the sky, killing most people on board. Among the victims were an Illinois congressman, a promising young CBS reporter called Michele Clark, Howard Hunt’s fed-up wife, and — ifis to be believed — a conspicuous stranger who gave Howard Hunt’s wife a menacing look as she boarded.
For Howard, that means speeding home to “Witches Island.” In the middle of the night, he rips his teenage son from bed and confesses his identity as a CIA spook and Nixon henchman. Then he recruits the panicked kid to aid and abet in destroying evidence, forever implicating Saint John in unlawful interference with a federal criminal investigation. Yes, this is Howard’s contingency plan. This is what it looks like for a top campaign operative to break glass.
Hunt and Liddy can destroy it all, but it will never be enough: typewriters and listening devices, purloined Watergate Hotel soap. Liddy, always in a race to be the most ludicrous person in Washington, even throws the unspent cash Mitchell gave them into the paper shredder.
Eventually, Nixon’s posse comes through with cash for Howard, McCord, and the Cubans only. There won’t be any help for Liddy and his five kids, though it’s unclear why. Maybe the White House is sure he’ll stay silent for free? Maybe they don’t think anyone would believe a nut like Liddy anyway? However, Howard refuses to see his partner cut out of the arrangement and persuades a reluctant Dorothy to part with some of their share of the money.
Unfortunately, Liddy wants to make sure they both stay broke. It turns out that Howard’s been sending out notes on White House stationery, including to the flirty flight attendant who he met on the way home from the Ellsberg break-in.
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