White House Plumbers
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Rememberthispivotal date, the date history was made.
OnWhite House Plumbers, though, chyrons are used constantly, even redundantly.
I really cant be sure.
But self-immolation feels like the answer to the unasked question: How stupid is G. Gordon Liddy?
The evidence continues to come at us in waves in c’mon Destroy This, Huh?
He is completely serious.
He is also standing inside the walls of the Department of Justice as he proposes this.
And how Liddy and Hunt climb their way back from the basement of Mitchells estimation to his good graces.
This is where Kathleen Turner finally comes into play.
Now, the memos been leaked to newspaper columnist Jack Anderson.
Or is he serious?
Plan B:Colson calls in Hunt for help, much like he did in theWhite House Plumbersseries premiere.
And they come up with a playbook so simple that it actually works.
They arrange for her to be airlifted to a Denver hospital staffed by doctors friendly to the presidents cause.
But this is only a temporary solution.
A series of medically unexplainable attacks can buy Mitchell time, but they cant solve the problem.
One day, Dita will be called to answer for her incriminating memo.
But the terms of compliance have been upped.
Now they want Dita to call into question the memos authenticity.
And she has motivations beyond the financials here.
Her daughter, who works for the RNC, has been shunned by her colleagues.
This is how Dita rebuilds their reputations in the conservative circles in which they swim.
Hell, she probably would have done it for the sheer thrill.
Hes charismatic and effective.
He can read a mood and a moment.
Hes not always, it seems, a complete idiot.
Except with his family.
With his family, Hunts forever volunteering the worst of parenting instincts.
Howard and Dorothy even invite Gordon and Fran to their country club in Maryland.
Unfortunately, two of Hunts kids Lisa and Howard Saint John are at the club that same night.
I guess this is where rich kids of the Washington metro area smoked weed before there were shopping malls.
This is how a busy man proves he cares.
And its not just that Howard is a short-tempered papa when hes down.
Hes a shitty dad in his third at-bat, right after his big win with Dita Beard.
Parenting is a game of compromise.
There are bad behaviors to correct and those to ignore.
Sometimes you just have to let someone escape a tricky situation without a public apology.
And sometimes, just sometimes, you have to let your girl play a proper noun.
And so the warm scene of family togetherness ends with Lisa upending the board and screaming.
Its probably just as well that Howard wont be at home much in the next few months.
Redeemed by what he did with Dita in Denver, his and Liddys Project Gemstone is approved.
With conditions, of course.
There will be no yachtful of sex workers in international waters.
The men are, under no circumstances, to murder any commies.
But they are given the go-ahead to bug DNC headquarters and $250,000 to put toward the nefarious scheme.
InScrabbleparlance, hes finally scored his bingo.
