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The movie portrays the elder Dewey as a crook, regularly taking bribes from Lucky Luciano and other criminals.
Journalists, senators, and special prosecutors have made sure that even the most ill-informed among us knows that Nixon, this complex man who invaded Cambodia while opening up China and invented racial preferences while singing the praises of the Silent Majority, was a crook.
The RPH isn't bothered by the fact that he's been routed before (Alexander, Alan Keyes, Pete Wilson, Pat Buchanan, Steve Forbes, Jack Kemp); that he's the most hated man in politics (Newt Gingrich); that he's a national joke (Dan Quayle); that hardly anyone outside his home state has heard of him (John Ashcroft, Bob Smith, George Pataki, Tom Ridge, John Kasich, Tommy Thompson); that most voters will confuse him with an S&L crook (Frank Keating, the governor of Oklahoma--he's never heard of you, either); or that he might not get elected if he were the next-to-last American alive (Gary Bauer).
But the problem with what Crook and Gottlieb are saying is that we never based our theory on earnings but instead, as we wrote in our Wall Street Journal piece on March 17, 1999, on the "money a stock will put in your pockets through the profits generated by the company that issued it."
Crook mentions "capital appreciation," saying that his method will reflect it because "dividends are themselves growing along with the worth of the company."