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A graduate student at the University of Illinois at Springfield stumbled upon two teleplays by the Nobel Prize-winning author--Faulkner's only known forays into the genre--while researching his master's thesis, Yoknapatawpha TV , at a Duke University archive.
To keep Betsy and Arlene quiet about having seen G. Gordon Liddy (Harry Shearer) at both the Watergate and the White House, Nixon (Dan Hedaya) made them "Official White House Dog Walkers"--in which capacity they stumbled on a room full of people shredding documents and counting piles of payoff money.
What's appalling is rather that now that their heroes have stumbled, they have disowned them so utterly.
Someone else eventually would have stumbled onto the same formula.
The Texas governor stumbled over "missile launches" Tuesday in South Carolina, instead uttering the phrase, "a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."