An Open Letter to Eugene I. Lambert, Esq. -- Is Eugene Lambert Concealing Knowledge of a Felony?

Eugene I. Lambert, Esq.
Covington & Burling

Mr. Lambert:

I strongly urge you to speak to the Washington Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning the following matters.  If you have any information that could help the Bureau investigate the criminal conduct of the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, see Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998), you have a legal duty, an ethical duty as a lawyer, and a fiduciary duty as a trustee of The George Washington University to disclose that information to federal law enforcement.  Your failure to disclose evidence of crimes could jeopardize your license to practice law.

The D.C. Corporation Counsel advised the D.C. Superior Court (1996) and the D.C. Court of Appeals (1997) that I formed a good-faith belief that a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (Stanley R. Palombo, M.D.) at GW routinely divulged confidential mental health information about me to Akin Gump in 1990 in violation of the D.C. Mental Health Information Act.  Brief of Appellee District of Columbia at 10, Freedman, no. 96-CV-961.

The D.C. Court of Appeals determined that a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (Gertrude R. Ticho, M.D., now deceased) at GW offered a professional psychiatric opinion about me to Malcolm Lassman, Esq. and Dennis M. Race, Esq. in 1991 upon which the U.S. Social Security Administration relied in 1993 to grant a fraudulent claim of disability insurance.   Dr. Ticho's act of providing a professional psychiatric opinion about an (unnamed) individual without benefit of personal examination was a violation of the American Psychiatric Association's Code of Professional Ethics.  See Goldwater v. Ginzburg, 396 U.S. 1049 (1970) (the APA's so-called Goldwater Rule prohibits a psychiatrist from offering a professional psychiatric opinion without benefit of personal examination).  Information obtained by Akin Gump via Dr. Ticho's violation of the Goldwater Rule was used by Akin Gump's attorney managers to defraud the D.C. Department of Human Rights (1992 and 1993), the D.C. Superior Court (1996), the D.C. Court of Appeals (1997), the D.C. Corporation Counsel (1996 and 1997), and the U.S. Social Security Administration (1993).

The spouse of a Covington & Burling partner was the presiding judge in the D.C. Superior Court (1996) litigation cited above.  I have had several written communications with that Covington & Burling partner.

If you recall, Mr. Lambert, you were placed on notice about these matters as early as the year 2004.

Gary Freedman
Washington, DC

Strauss Reviewing the Legal Details: One Hundred Years of Der Rosenkavalier

Der Rosenkavalier (Op. 59) (The Knight of the Rose) is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière’s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac. It was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 26 January 1911 under the direction of Max Reinhardt.

In Act 1 the room fills with supplicants to the Princess Marie Therese von Werdenberg. An Italian tenor sent by the Portuguese Ambassador serenades the Princess ("Di rigori armato"), while Baron Ochs works out the marriage contract with the Princess's lawyer. Rudely interrupting the tenor's song, Ochs tells the lawyer to demand a dower from Sophie's family; to no avail, the lawyer attempts to explain that such is impossible under the law (Ochs confuses dower with dowry).

FBI: "Sorry, There's Nothing to Investigate Here"

I really think the totality of bizarre facts and implications of my case can probably only arise if there is some underlying network of criminal activity.

Think about it:

Paranoid schizophrenia that comes and goes and that doesn't affect a person's legal reasoning or fact analysis.

Bipolar disorder in full bloom that does not affect the person's legal reasoning or fact analysis.

"Cartoon physics." "He was an outstanding employee, but when we found out he was actually crazy and potentially violent before he was hired (and throughout his employment with us), we had to fire him."

A sister who implores her unmedicated "potentially violent" and "psychotic brother" to babysit her 13-year-old daughter for the weekend so that she and her husband can go on a cruise (April 1995).  (In a telephone conference call in August 1993, the brother's psychiatrist told the sister that her brother needed to be administered the potent anti-psychotic medication Haldol.  He never took the Haldol or any medication, other than lithium for bipolar disorder that had gone into spontaneous remission.)  By the way, the sister's husband was an unprosecuted felon.

A major medical center terminates a patient's outpatient psychiatric care without helping him find alternative care despite the fact that the patient suffers from (unmedicated) paranoid schizophrenia, and several reliable sources indicate that the patient might become violent or homicidal.

A supervisor who asks a potentially homicidal employee to stay in the office after he is fired to complete the work he was doing before he got fired.  (At the termination meeting minutes earlier a senior managing attorney told the employee that his work was of poor quality.)  "He might be a crazed homicidal maniac, but we need him to complete his work, although, of course, his work quality is poor."

A lawyer who foists on a court a mountain of legally-irrelevant evidence to win a case that his boss had earlier said he wouldn't even defend in court.

An individual diagnosed with psychotic mental illness again and again who shows no evidence of illness other than his accusation that he is a victim of an organized crime.

A senior law firm manager tells an employee who was terminated by reason of severe mental illness that he is concerned that the employee might try to embarrass the employer.  Just how does a psychotic individual go about embarrassing his former employer -- or anyone?

A senior law firm manager who has terminated an employee because he fears the individual might become violent permits the employee to go home to get a suitcase and return to the office to carry his personal belongings home.

A senior law firm manager certifies that an employee's complaint of job harassment is the product of severe psychiatric illness but acknowledges that the employee's work environment was disruptive and unprofesssional in response to another employee's Title VII complaint.

An employee develops a psychotic delusion in August 1990 -- without any supporting evidence -- that his employer has spoken to a specific psychiatrist about him (Gertrude R. Ticho, M.D.); the employee knows nothing about any relationship between Dr. Ticho and any of the employer's managers. In May 1993 the employer admits that of all the psychiatrists in the Washington, D.C. region the employer spoke to none other than -- you guessed it! -- Gertrude R. Ticho, M.D. in late October 1991 who reportedly advised that the employee was severely disturbed and potentially violent.  In May 1993 the employer discloses that Gertrude R. Ticho was a "personal friend" of Bob Strauss's right-hand man at the firm.  (Imagine the amazing coincidence!  Why did the employee develop a psychotic delusion about Gertrude R. Ticho, of all people, in August 1990?)

One of the firm's senior managers is a personal friend of the Attorney General of the United States.  That senior manager reportedly attempted to buy the silence of a White House intern in the late 1990s, an individual who had evidence that could lead to the impeachment of the President of the United States.

Oh, and believe me, we've only scratched the surface!  These are just the highlights.

By the way, the entire time the FBI was telling me there was nothing to investigate about my case, just who do you think was the U.S. Attorney in Washington, DC?  You guessed it -- the current Attorney General of the United States!

Again, I believe it is probably true that compelling evidence of widespread deception and ludicrous allegations of fact probably do not exist or arise in the absence of an underlying organized criminal conspiracy.  But then I have asymptomatic paranoid schizophrenia.  What do I know?

The Phallic-Narcissistic Character

Here is what the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich wrote about the phallic narcissistic character in his book Character Analysis

I believe that my friend Craig W. Dye and the actor Warren Beatty are exquisite examples of this character type.

For the Chapters: "I Guess I'm Still Psychotic" and "How to Commit Legal Racketeering"

On Tuesday January 25, 2011 I had a consult with my psychotherapist, a psychiatry resident.  During the session I said, "I feel I need to be intimidated by a person.  I feel I need that tension with a person.  I feel that need to be intimidated in psychotherapy and I feel that need in life."

The therapist responded by saying that psychotherapy isn't what it was "30 years ago."  He said that psychiatry was far more "interactive."  In effect, he was saying, at least as I understood it, that therapists were not as paternalistic as they used to be.

I had an immediate idea of reference.  See Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998) (an employer may find an employee not suitable for employment by reason of business necessity if he exhibits the "disorder" ideas of reference, which an employer may credibly find may be associated with a risk of violence).

I thought of a paragraph from a post I published on this blog on Friday January 21, 2011 titled: DOJ Interview: Prior Perceptions that Colored My Interpretation.

I thought my psychiatrist was referring to the following specific paragraph from that post:

3. During telephone conversations I had with my sister she seemed increasingly agitated over the weeks and months of the fall of 2009. In about December 2009 I recall one conversation in which I picked up a stream of symbolic references to my mother. My mother had died in early January 1980, almost 30 years earlier. I formed the tentative theory that my sister had been asked by somebody, "Do you have any idea why your brother would be blogging about these matters at this particular time? What would motivate your brother to write these things on the Internet?" I formed the belief that my sister responded, "January 2010 will be the 30th anniversary of my mother's death. Maybe he's reacting to that."

I believed that the therapist's use of the term "30 years ago" was a reference to my mother's death in early January 1980.  I believed that his use of the word "interactive" was a play on words.  "Interactive" can refer to interpersonal relations but also to the relationship between a person and a computer.

I continue to have the "disorder" ideas of reference, which an employer may credibly find, see Fuentes (even in an above-average or outstanding employee with no record of reprimands oral or written), renders an employee potentially violent and unemployable by reason of business necessity.  See Freedman.

Exhaustion!

I am exhausted.  I am too tired to blog and too tired to work out.

I've Got Rage in Me!

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

I -- with the much-appreciated help of the U.S. Marshal Service -- am doing my part to bankrupt the United States of America.

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

I'd love to get a job.  But I can't.  The U.S. Marshal Service has determined that I pose a risk of harm to persons in their jurisdiction.  I cannot work by reason of business necessity.  I am a tort risk to potential employers.

Blog: Suspicious Activity

Apparently, there's somebody at the House of Representatives who knows of a connection between me and Jeffrey Lieberson, the son-in-law of former Senator Russell Feingold (D-WI).  Odd.

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Akin Gump: Knowledge of My Consultations with Mental Health Professionals

The following is page 447 of the record on appeal in Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998).

Akin Gump advised the D.C. Department of Human Rights (May 22, 1992) that it had consulted two mental health professionals about my future employment with the firm, in late October 1991.  The firm did not identify the names of the mental health professionals.  The following statement advises the Department of Human Rights of Akin Gump's possible knowledge of the identity of mental health professionals I had consulted during my employment and the possibility that one or more of my therapists divulged confidential information about me in possible violation of the D.C. Mental Health Information Act.  In May 1993 Akin Gump advised the Department of Human Rights that it had consulted Gertrude R. Ticho, M.D. (a psychiatrist I had never consulted) and an unnamed employee of the Employee Assistance Provider, Sheppard Pratt.

RESPONDENT'S KNOWLEDGE OF COMPLAINANT'S CONSULTATIONS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

1.  Sheppard Pratt Employee Assistance Program: Respondent had probable constructive knowledge based on Complainant's possible entry of notice of consultations on "LMS" computerized attorney time records which are part of Respondent's business records.  Respondent had actual knowledge of Complainant's consultation with mental health counselor at Shepard Pratt as of Thursday morning October 24, 1991, at which time Complainant advised Malcolm Lassman and Dennis Race, in response to a question by Malcolm Lassman, that he had visited Sheppard Pratt.

2.  Respondent's communications with a mental health counselor at Sheppard Pratt may have provided Respondent with actual knowledge that I had consulted with Dr. Stein, since Complainant's clinical file at Sheppard Pratt states that Kathleen Kelly of Sheppard Pratt referred me, in September 1989, to Dr. Stein.  Any communication between Respondent and Dr. Stein may have provided Respondent with actual knowledge that I had consulted with Dr. Wilson, since Dr. Stein referred me, on March 16, 1991, to Dr. Wilson.  Also, if Dr. Wilson is in fact the unnamed psychiatrist from whom Respondent obtained a "representation" as to my mental status, that fact would tend to prove that the mental health professional at Sheppard Pratt, with whom Dennis Race consulted, had relied on confidential mental health information concerning Complainant that is on file at Sheppard Pratt.

3. Stanley R. Palombo, M.D.: Respondent had actual knowledge as of about March 1991 when Complainant submitted physician's bills to Respondent's Personnel Department for insurance reimbursement.

4.  Complainant submitted bills to Respondent's Personnel Department for Drs. Winkler, Sack, and Brown after termination of employment.

5.  From about March 1990 until October 8, 1991 Complainant routinely advised supervisor, Chris Robertson, of planned appointments to see mental health professionals prior to weekly visits, but Complainant did not identify the name of the mental health professional to supervisor.  On one occasion during the summer of 1991 Complainant invited supervisor to attend session with psychologist, but Complainant did not identify the name of psychologist.

6.  While working in terrace level Complainant posted on wall of his work cubicle the business cards of Dr. William D. Brown and Dr. Lawrence C. Sack.  Respondent, specifically, Chris Robertson, the Complainant's supervisor, had possible knowledge that Complainant was a patient of Dr. Brown and Dr. Sack.
_________________________

One of my coworkers at Akin Gump, Pat McNeil, stated that employees were aware of the identity of mental health professionals I was seeing between April and August 1991, while I worked in the firm's terrace level suite.

On the evening of July 1, 1993 I spoke by telephone with a former Akin Gump coworker, Patricia McNeil. Summarized below are selected, material comments made by Pat McNeil. I supplied a copy of the tape recording of the phone call to the DC Corporation Counsel, the U.S. Secret Service, and the D.C. Police (Second District, Officer J.E. Williams, Badge 1226).

1. I thought you were a very professional person, a quiet person, who stayed to himself. I respected that. Some people are just not people-oriented.

2. I never thought you were a violent person.

3. [Noting that I posted therapists' appointment cards at my desk:] I heard people say, "He must be crazy, he's always going to a psychiatrist."

4. [Quoting comments by another coworker, Carletta Diggins, concerning my termination:] Carletta said, "I wonder what they did to Gary? Gary was such a nice person. He was really a quiet person. He didn't bother anyone." I told Carletta, "as good of a person as Gary is -- his work speaks for itself, it couldn't have been his work -- what did he do?" She said, "I don't know, Pat."

5. [States facetiously:] All of a sudden you became this crazy person. When you were hired you weren't crazy. When do you think you became crazy?

6. [Concerning Dennis Race's investigation of my allegation of harassment:] Dennis Race didn't question anybody in the Department. He never talked to me. If he did an investigation, wouldn't you think that he'd have talked to various ones in the Department? I don't know of anyone in the Department he talked to. Maybe he only talked to selected people Chris Robertson picked, Chris' favorites. [Note that Pat McNeil's conjecture suggests a violation by my supervisor, Chris Robertson, of D.C. Code sec. 1-2525(b), prohibiting the aiding or abetting of retaliation.]

7. All I know is that Chris said, "You all know that Gary is gone. And they're coming to change the locks, because we're afraid Gary may come back and he may try to kill me." I never pictured you to be a person who would do something like that.

8. Lutheria Harrison and Sherri Ann Patrick were promoted to paralegals. [Lutheria Harrison and Sherri Ann Patrick fit in the category of "Chris Robertson's favorites."]

Freedman v. D.C. Dept. of Human Rights, Record at 41.

Of Red Shirts, Pomegranates, Revolutionaries and Phallic Narcissists

Where was I on Christmas Day in 1988?  Well, I can tell you, my friends, I did not spend my dinner hour at a Chinese restaurant: red Chinese or otherwise.

My friend Craig W. Dye invited me over to his place, where I spent the day.   At that time Craig had an English sheep dog named Toots.  During the afternoon, Craig, talking about his dog said, "The bitch is in heat.  She whines when she's in heat."  Daniel Cutler, another friend and former coworker from Hogan & Hartson, where I worked from 1985 to 1988, arrived late in the afternoon.  Daniel Cutler's friend, Axel Martinez, also showed up.  Craig cooked rabbit for dinner.  Daniel and I went to a video store and rented Mosquito Coast, based on the book by Paul Theroux, which we watched in the evening.  (Incidentally, the novelist Paul Theroux's brother is the Washington, DC attorney Eugene Theroux, Esq.  I sent several letters to Eugene Theroux in the 1990s.)

 http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2011/06/attorney-application-baker-mckenzie.html

In the evening, while we were watching Mosquito Coast, Craig began eating a pomegranate.  He offered me one.  I declined.  Craig went to his bedroom and changed into a dark red shirt to conceal any errant dark red juice from the pomegranate.  The shirt might have been flannel, but I don't remember now.  I do remember that Craig used to douse himself with Gray Flannel cologne.

Be that as it may.

The psychoanalyst Leonard Shengold has written about an adult male patient he had seen in analysis.  The patient had had sex with his mother in early adolescence and had blocked out the memory of that event.  Sexual intercourse with his mother at age twelve had dramatically transformed the man's character, in Dr. Shengold's view.

Dr. Shengold writes: "My patient had solved the riddle of the Sphinx in incestuous action, and then repressed it.  But the arrogance continued for him, the narcissistic triumph derived from feeling himself the 'son of Fortune.'  During his analysis my patient remembered his secret pride at the age of twelve at having had intercourse with a grown woman when his friends were only daydreaming about sex.  He consciously tried then to dissociate any thought of the 'grown woman' from the concept of mother or even from the word mother, which inevitably connected with father (see Welch 1968 for a contrasting view of the use of the terms mother and father in relation to incest).  In later adolescence (after repression), he habitually attracted attention by wearing a bright red, flannel "worker's shirt," which had Marxist connotations for him.  This  was "the flag of his disposition"; in analysis he called it the "costume of a humble coxcomb" (coxcomb can refer to both a fool and an exhibitionist--an apt mixture of shame and pride), and he associated the word and the image of a cock's comb to his mother's genitals and to his own red and far-from-humble erection.  He was unknowingly draping himself in an incestuous revolutionary red banner.  In later life, when there was competition for a particular post, or if he had to submit work in contention with that of peers, he confidently assumed he would win; true to Freud's prediction, he often did.  He was both intelligent and gifted, and that helped him live up to overweening pretensions.  Although generally good-natured and even 'humble' in manner, he had many arrogant traits.  He never wore a watch, which certainly was an inconvenience in business; his attitude was a breezy 'let others wait.'  There was more than a touch in this of a concomitant strand in his superego: provoking punishment.  (He was never late in his analysis, where he had to confront the deeper meanings of warring with Time.)  His wife would frequently be stimulated to repeat to him: 'You know, you are not of royal blood.'"  Such are the observations of Dr. Shengold.

A dream I titled The Dream of Milton's Successor (Part 2) quotes from the above passage:

Shengold quotes Freud's Goethe essay in his book Soul Murder, the relevant chapter of which presents the case of a man who had had sexual intercourse with his mother during adolescence. See Shengold, L. Soul Murder at 155-180 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989). The patient, a man in his mid-thirties, is described by Shengold as a "strong-looking man with rugged good looks and an athletic presence" and an "aggressively masculine aura" (p. 162). Shengold states: "My patient had solved the riddle of the Sphinx in incestuous action, and then repressed it. But the arrogance continued for him, the narcissistic triumph derived from feeling himself the 'son of Fortune.'" (p. 170). Shengold then quotes Freud directly: "Freud uses almost the same words, with no reference to Oedipus, in his construction of the thoughts of Goethe, one of Freud's alter egos: 'I was a child of fortune' [quoting "A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung und Wahrheit']" (p. 170). Shengold reports that the patient's arrogance was such that his wife "would frequently be stimulated to repeat to him: 'You know, you are not of royal blood'" (p. 170).

During the summer of 1987 my working relationship with Craig Dye (who, coincidentally, had a physique and bearing that matched that of Shengold's patient) was one of rivalry. Our mutual antagonism is suggested by the fact that Craig and I shared the following characteristics, attributed by Shengold to his patient, in equal measure. "In later life, when there was competition for a particular post, or if he had to submit work in contention with that of peers, he confidently assumed he would win; true to Freud's prediction, he often did. He was both intelligent and gifted, and that helped him live up even to overweening pretensions. Although generally good-natured and even "humble" in manner, he had many arrogant traits" (p. 170). A paraphrase of a line from a novel by Goethe (Elective Affinities) aptly describes my workplace relationship with Craig: "Once they have been brought together, God help them!"

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Akin Gump: Record on Appeal -- Firm's Concern with Embarrassment

The following are pages 453 and 454 of the record on appeal in Freedman v. D.C. Dept. Human Rights, D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998).   The document memorializes Dennis Race's admonition to me on  Wednesday morning October 30, 1991, the day following my job termination, not to embarrass the firm.

I also submitted this document to the U.S. Social Security Administration in support of my claim for disability insurance. 

The date stamp indicates that I faxed the document to my sister on Friday September 25, 1992.  

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FAX NO. 609 235 5569 MEREDITH FINANCIAL SERVICES
transmittal for Mrs. Estelle Jacobson c/o Mr. Edward Jacobson

Dear Stell,

The following is a listing of telephone contacts, or attempted telephone contacts, with various Akin Gump attorneys in the period following my termination and before the filing of a complaint with the District of Columbia Department of Human Rights and Minority Business Development. The contacts and attempted contacts establish a good faith effort to resolve the issue of my termination, which I believed to be groundless, and establish a good faith effort to call attention to my job evaluations, which I believed, may have been overlooked prior to the firm’s decision to terminate. The listing is based on recollection.

October 29, 1991 -- In the afternoon after my termination I telephoned Malcolm Lassman at his office. I asked him if he knew what had happened. He said he knew. I told him that it had been a difficult three-and-one-half years; he acknowledged my statement. He mentioned that someone in his family was also going through a similar situation (Dennis Race also mentioned this fact at the termination meeting, in the context of the discussion about my being a "talented guy," etc.). I asked him if we could get together to discuss other employment opportunities. He told me to call him during the week of November 11, 1991 and that we could get together for coffee, and explained that he was going to be out of the office during the week of November 4, 1991.

October 29, 1991 -- I telephoned Earl Segal at the office. I left a message with his secretary; Mr. Segal did not return the call.

(Also, earlier in the day, while still at the office, I attempted to see Malcolm Lassman in his office; he was out. I also attempted to see Earl Segal in his office; he was out.)

October 29, 1991 -- In the evening I telephoned the residence of Laurence Hoffman, the firm’s managing partner. No one was home. I think I got a telephone answering machine message; I did not leave a message.

October 29, 1991 -- In the evening I telephoned the residence of Dennis Race. No one was home.

October 29, 1991 -- In the evening I telephoned the residence of Earl Segal. I spoke with a young man who told me that Mr. Segal was not available. I said I would call Mr. Segal at the office the next day, and did not leave my name.

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October 29, 1991 -- In the evening I telephoned the residence of Malcolm Lassman twice. In the first call a woman with a foreign accent told me that Mr. Lassman was not home. The second time I called, Mr. Lassman answered the phone. I asked Mr. Lassman if the firm would object to a claim for unemployment insurance; he politely told me to call Dennis Race in the office.

October 30, 1991 -- Around 9:00 AM I telephoned Dennis Race at the office and asked him if the firm would object to a claim for unemployment insurance. Mr. Race said that the firm would not object, as long as I didn't put down anything that embarrassed the firm. Noting that the previous day, Mr. Race had said that one of the reasons for my termination was that I ignored people's corrections, I directed Mr. Race's attention to my job evaluation dated November 1989 that expressly stated that I "catered to individual needs." Mr. Race asked me if J.D. Neary had written that; I said, no, Constance Brown. Mr. Race politely explained that the problems with my work arose after that job evaluation had been written, which apparently in Mr. Race's mind, made that job evaluation irrelevant. The telephone call was cordial. I was somewhat agitated since I hadn't slept the night before.

November 4, 1991 -- Around 9:00 AM I telephoned Earl Segal at the office. Having thoroughly reviewed my job evaluations, I had come to believe that my termination was “problematic” and wanted to call the firm’s attention to this fact. I asked Mr. Segal if the management committee had had an opportunity to review my termination, which, in view of my job evaluations, I believed was “problematic.” Mr. Segal asked me if a review by the management committee was something I had discussed with Dennis Race. I said, “No, this is something I concocted.” I believe he told me that he would speak with Dennis Race and that Mr. Race would contact me if a contact were warranted. Mr. Segal also told me, politely, that in the future all of my contacts should be with Dennis Race only. (I assumed that this also entailed all third-party contacts.) (I received no contact from Mr. Race, either by telephone or by the mail.)

Week of November 4, 1991 -- I telephoned the office of Malcolm Lassman. His secretary told me that Mr. Lassman was out of the office all week (as he had told me on the afternoon of October 29, 1991). Weeks later I telephoned Mr. Lassman’s office on two different occasions. I left a message on each occasion that I wished to speak with Mr. Lassman about his serving as a job reference for me. On neither occasion did Mr. Lassman991 -- I telephoned the office of Malcolm Lassman. His secretary told me that Mr. Lassman was out of the office all week (as he had told me on the afternoon of October 29, 1991). Weeks later I telephoned Mr. Lassman’s office on two different occasions. I left a message on each occasion that I wished to speak with Mr. Lassman about his serving as a job reference for me. On neither occasion did Mr. Lassman return my calls. During one of my calls I explained that my name was Gary Freedman and that I used to work at the firm. The employee, possibly Mr. Lassman’s secretary said, “I think I remember who you are.”

I did not call David Callet (or Mrs. Callet). I also decided it would be advisable that I not place a call to Moscow.

GF

Significant Moments: A Density of Metaphor

It is interesting that a particular metaphor is used three times in my book Significant Moments.  The metaphor describes an object that is obliterated by a like object of greater intensity.  The following passage quotes the use of the metaphor by Marcel Proust and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Of late I have been increasingly able to catch, if I listen attentively, the sound of the sobs . . . which broke out only when I found myself alone with Mamma. Actually, their echo . . . 

Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past. 
. . . the echo of an original identity . . . 
Otto Rank, Art and Artist.

 . . . has never ceased: it is only because life is now growing more and more quiet round about me that I hear them afresh, like those convent bells which are so effectively drowned during the day by the noises of the streets . . . 
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past. 
. . . just as lamplight is nullified by the light of day . . . 
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy. 
. . . that one would suppose them to have been stopped for ever, until they sound out again through the silent evening air. 
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past.

In a later section of the book I quote Shakespeare who used the same metaphor in Romeo and Juliet.

What if her eyes . . . 
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

. . . Mathilde’s . . . 
Martin Gregor Dellin, Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century. 
. . . eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night. 
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. 

Blog: Suspicious Activity

The following individual spent more than an hour on Tuesday afternoon January 25, 2011 reading my blog, from 2:39 to 3:55 PM.  It's a tad odd.

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Significant Moments: Mama Loschen

Jules Clément Naudet and Thomas Gédéon Naudet are French filmmakers. The brothers, residents of the United States since 1989, were in New York City at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Jules captured footage of American Airlines Flight 11 hitting the North tower of the World Trade Center.

The brothers graduated from Tisch School of the Arts in 1995. Their first film, Hope, Gloves and Redemption (2000) centered on young boxers in training in the Bronx and Spanish Harlem, and included coverage of the 1998 New York Daily News Golden Gloves tournament.

The Naudet brothers were in the process of making a documentary on New York firefighters, following Antonio "Tony" Benetatos, a rookie firefighter or "probie", through his experiences in Fire Department of New York (FDNY) academy training and into a firehouse.

On the morning of 9/11, Jules was taping as firefighters examined a reported gas leak when American Airlines Flight 11 flew right over him and slammed head-on into the North Tower. Although in the footage, the plane is not seen until the impact is about to happen, the sound of the jet's engines can be heard clearly beforehand as well as the firefighter's reaction to it. The Naudet video footage thus became some of the most comprehensive on-site coverage of the 9/11 attacks in New York.

There are two points of view from two cameras shot by both brothers of events occurring at the same time.

Jules went with the FDNY into the North Tower upon them seeing the impact of Flight 11 and responding. He was inside the lobby of the North Tower with the FDNY during most of the event while Gédéon was either in the firehouse with Benetatos (the sole firefighter there for some time) or just below the WTC area among the crowds.

Gédéon's footage captures the impact of United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower while Jules's footage shows the effects of the collapse of the South Tower from inside the lobby of the North Tower.

Along with the video tape of Pavel Hlava, the Naudets' film is the only known footage of Flight 11 striking the World Trade Center. (A series of web camera images from Wolfgang Staehle show the approach of Flight 11 and the after-impact.)

In March 2002 I watched the CBS TV broadcast of the Naudet brothers' documentary 9/11.  The entire film is stunning in its real time capture of the historical events of that day.

I was moved by a brief scene in which the Naudet brothers are reunited after Gideon has convinced himself that his brother, Jules, was killed.  The brothers are reunited in the firehouse (at 5:50 on the YouTube video).  They hug each other.  I was particularly struck by the brothers -- who spoke fluent English -- reverting to their mother tongue, French, in this significant moment of overpowering emotion.  Mama loschen means "mother tongue" in Yiddish, by the way.

I immediately thought, "yes, that is the way it is.  In moments of intense emotion or interpersonal intimacy, we lose ourselves in the moment.  We become our true selves.  We abandon all our pretenses, emotional and cultural.  Our true identity is revealed."  I wanted to capture that notion in my book, Significant Moments.  I had started writing Significant Moments in the spring of 1993.  By 2002 I had completed much of the text.  But I went back into the text and added passages that present the characters reverting to their native language when speaking of or alluding to their fathers or other family members.

1.  Anna Freud and Jeffrey Masson.  In a passage in which Anna Freud refers to her father, she reverts to German.

And then, as he was silent, she . . .
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence. 
. . . said something in German . . . 
Don DeLillo, White Noise. 
. . . in tones so clear and evenly-pitched that each separate syllable tapped like a little hammer on his brain: 
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence. 
“Herr Doktor, . . . 
Don DeLillo, White Noise. 
Um Gott, was klagest du mich an? War ich es, die dir Leid gebracht?
[Oh, God, what are you complaining to me for?  Am I the cause of your problems?]
Richard Wagner, Lohengrin. 
Dr. Masson take note! 
Leonard Shengold, Soul Murder: The Effects of Childhood Abuse and Deprivation. 
. . . Mein Vater . . .
Richard Wagner, Lohengrin.
(Whenever she used that phrase "my father" I would shudder a bit at its historic magic—knowing, too, that in just a few years, nobody else would ever be able to say that again . . . ) 
J. Moussaieff Masson, Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst. 
. . . my father . . . 
Anna Freud, On Losing and Being Lost. 
. . . based his rejection of these women's memories on clinical material. He recanted because he was wrong the first time." 
J. Moussaieff Masson, Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst.
" . . . I am proud to know I understood him better than anyone on earth—he told me so himself. . . ." 
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. 
"Is that not plain enough for you, Dr. Masson?" 
J. Moussaieff Masson, Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst. 

2.  Cosima Wagner and Franz Liszt.  In a passage describing a dinner party Cosima Wagner asks her father, Franz Liszt, with increasing urgency, to come along to the table.   Strauss's opera Arabella features a close father-daughter relationship.

Liszt arrived at last . . . 
Martin Gregor-Dellin, Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century. 
There’s papa! 
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arabella. 
. . . embraced his daughter . . . 
Gustave Flaubert, Emma Bovary. 
. . . and walked on, allowing . . . 
Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister. 
. . . Frau Wagner . . . 
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams. 
. . . to walk by his side. 
Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister. 
One of the women murmured: 
Guy de Maupassant, The Hand. 
There he is. Don’t you think he’s elegant? 
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arabella. 
“Papa! Come along!” 
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary. 
An admiring group, huddled by the doorway . . . 
Henry Adams, Democracy: An American Novel. 
—Papa, viens donc! 
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary. 
. . . is hushed into admiring awe. 
Edna Ferber, The Homely Heroine. 
They sat down, they unfolded their stiff table napkins. The immense room was carpeted, the walls were covered with eighteenth-century paneling . . . 
Thomas Mann, The Blood of the Walsungs. 
Frau Wagner . . . 
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams. 
. . . gestures to . . . 
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arabella. 
. . . her father . . . 
J. Moussaieff Masson, Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst. 
. . . to sit down beside her.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arabella. 

3. Marie d'Agoult and her grandchildren.  In a passage at a dinner party, Countess Marie d'Agoult (mother of Cosima Wagner) is playing with her grandchildren and reverts to French.

. . . the clock has struck ten . . . 
Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. 
Marie d’Agoult, . . . 
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (translator’s introduction). 
. . . la grande mere . . . 
Guy de Maupassant, The Vagabond. 
. . . was talking . . . 
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary. 
. . . and playing with the children—Daniel and Blandine von Bulow, Isolde, Eva, and Siegfried Wagner. 
Phyllis Stock-Morton, The Life of Marie d’Agoult, alias Daniel Stern. 
‘You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frere!’ 
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land. 
. . . she remarked abruptly, whereupon . . . 
Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl. 
. . . the Countess . . .
[Countess Ellen Olenska]
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence.
 . . . grinned and the children giggled.
Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl. 
"The children ought to go to bed," . . . 
Thomas Mann, Disorder and Early Sorrow.
. . . Wagner remarked 
Martin Gregor-Dellin, Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century. 
He said, Marie, Marie . . . 
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land. 
It’s getting late, my dear, . . .
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield. 
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME 
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land. 
"Run along up to bed now; no excuses!" 
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past. 
But she pleads for another quarter of an hour; she has promised already, and they do love it so!
Thomas Mann, Disorder and Early Sorrow. 

4.  Wagner and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.  While sitting for his portrait Wagner speaks in a mixture of French and German, while Renoir interjects with French phrases.  Wagner's father was a portrait painter, a fact I point out at another point in the book.  The use of French is intended to suggest that Wagner identifies Renoir with his father, which helps explain the jocular and familiar exchange between the two men who were strangers.

I suggest full face.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Letter to an Unknown Friend in Renoir: A Retrospective, Nicholas Wadley, ed.
Il n’ecoutait pas. 
William Faulkner, Le Domaine (The Mansion in French Translation). 
“You want, of course, full resemblance.”
Arthur Rubinstein, My Many Years. 
He says that will be fine. 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Letter to an Unknown Friend in Renoir: A Retrospective, Nicholas Wadley, ed. 
He smiled with me, but only in that the closed corners of his mouth contracted more firmly and he shut his eyes a little. 
Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus. 
Of the very curious blue-and-pink result R. says it makes him look like the embryo of an angel, an oyster swallowed by an epicure. 
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Sunday, January 15, 1882). 
C’etait bien ca; 
William Faulkner, Le Domaine (The Mansion in French Translation). 
The conversation, which lasted for about three-quarters of an hour, seems to have consisted mostly of remarks by Wagner in bad French and embarrassed interjections by the painter . . . 
Ernest Newman, The Life of Richard Wagner. 
. . . thereby consummating the Babel of confusion . . . 
Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus. 
. . . between the two men. 
Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister. 

5. The Marranos and God (The heavenly Father).  The Marranos (secret Jews who date their lineage back to the Spanish Inquisition) utter a Hebrew prayer in addressing God.  Significantly, this passage (in an earlier revision) was present in my first draft of Significant Moments which dates from May 1993.

One summer evening, with much of the community present, Schwarz was moved to chant the ancient Hebrew prayer, Shema, Yisrael, Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Ehad. (Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.) 
Paul Cohen, An Orphan in History. 
. . . the old prayer they had neglected for so many tears—the forgotten creed! 
Arnold Schoenberg, A Survivor From Warsaw. 
Though the people of Belmonte had never heard of a language called Hebrew, that prayer opened the door of trust. Adonai—God—was the only Hebrew word that had survived the Inquisition: the only trace of the holy
tongue . . . 
Paul Cohen, An Orphan in History.
—a kind of . . . 
O. Henry, The Moment of Victory. 
. . . mother tongue, . . . 
Henry David Thoreau, Walden. 
. . . that remained in their Portuguese language liturgy. As soon as Schwarz uttered the word, the conversos covered their eyes. One of the oldest women among them recited a prayer. Then, weeping, she reached out her hands and touched Schwarz’s face. “He is indeed a Jew,” she said. “For he knows the name Adonai.” 
Paul Cohen, An Orphan in History.

The following video is excerpted from the Naudet brothers' documentary "9/11."  The sequence of interest begins at 5:50 on the video.

Significant Moments: The President, Secret Intelligence and The Ego and the Id

Albert Rothenberg, M.D. first described or discovered a process he termed "homospatial thinking," which consists of actively conceiving two or more discrete entities occupying the same space, a conception leading to the articulation of new identities. Homospatial thinking has a salient role in the creative process in the following wide variety of fields: literature, the visual arts, music, science, and mathematics. This cognitive factor, along with "Janusian thinking," clarifies the nature of creative thinking as a highly adaptive and primarily nonregressive form of functioning.

There is a section of my book Significant Moments whose manifest content describes President Nixon and the Watergate affair.  In my fictionalized account, the break-in of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office was carried out by CIA operatives.

Superimposed on the text is the metaphor of the tripartite ego as conceived by Sigmund Freud, with the conscious ego (the executive function of the ego) represented in the manifest text by The President of the United States and the Id (the unconscious) represented in the manifest text by "secret intelligence."

In "The Ego and the Id" Freud analogized the mind to a rider on horseback.  The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions . . . in its relation to the id it is like a man on horseback, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength, while the ego uses borrowed forces.  (Note that the Latin word "Id" is the word "It" in English.)

In the manifest text (below) the President represents the rider and "secret intelligence" represents the horse.

Another theme: note how I use the word "censorship" in two senses.  First, censorship is used in the manifest text to indicate the obliteration of a portion of a written or tape-recorded text.  In psychoanalysis Freud used the word "censorship" to indicate the repression of unconscious thoughts by the conscious ego.

Incidentally, President Nixon's lawyer Leonard Garment (a friend of Bob Strauss, by the way) underwent a course of psychoanalysis when he was a young man.

Note that I play on the word garment as referring both to Leonard Garment, the President's lawyer, and to an article of clothing which covers the genitals (as the conscious ego conceals the sexual thoughts or urges of the Id).  My father worked as a cutter in the garment industry and was a member of The Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union.

The following text contains numerous quotations relating to the opera composer Richard Wagner.  In several of his essays -- in a remarkable foreshadowing of later psychoanalytic theory -- Wagner implicitly compared the orchestra in an opera (the netherworld of the theater) to the unconscious mind and the visible singers and the action that transpires on stage to the conscious mind.  

(If I might say so myself, I thought it was ingenious of me to use psychoanalytical metaphors to describe the break-in of a psychoanalyst's office.)

_____________________________
In any case, . . .
Ernest Newman, Wagner as Man and Artist.

. . . Dr. E. . . .
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (Saturday, May 18, 1878).

. . . true to the role of a sleuth . . .
K.R. Eissler, Talent and Genius.

. . . had learned too much, . . .
Martin Gregor-Dellin, Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century.

. . . while the . . .
Wilkie Collins, The Evil Genius.

. . . President of the United States . . .
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (editors' notes).

. . . lost face and then tried to save it, either . . .
Martin Gregor-Dellin, Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century.

. . . by dissembling . . .
William Shakespeare, King Richard III.

. . . or by ascribing the disastrous outcome . . .
Martin Gregor-Dellin, Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century.

. . . of that dissembling . . .
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.

. . . to the machinations of . . .
Martin Gregor-Dellin, Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century.

. . . the meaner Press—
Ernest Newman, The Life of Richard Wagner.

. . . which was ready . . .
Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers.

. . . and eager, as always and everywhere, to pull down anything or anyone elevated by nature above it.
Ernest Newman, The Life of Richard Wagner.

Without . . .
Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People.

. . . the ability of a government to keep secrets . . .
William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream.

. . . said the President . . .
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.

. . . I should not be able to guide and direct public affairs in the way I consider best serves the common weal.
Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People.

But in the end, the . . .
Felicity Barringer, Journalism’s Greatest Hits: Two Lists of a Century’s Top Stories.

. . . CIA psychiatrists . . .
William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream.

. . . as it turned out—
Martin Gregor-Dellin, Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century.

. . .seemed to admire Ellsberg.
William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream.

Some had praise for his courage, . . .
K.R. Eissler, Crusaders.

. . . although no one . . .
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis.

. . . dared to join him publicly or to give him official support.
K.R. Eissler, Crusaders.

This reaction made . . .
E. James Lieberman, Acts of Will.

. . . the President . . .
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.
. . . furious.
E. James Lieberman, Acts of Will.

I can see him now, and hear his . . .
H.G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography.

. . . convoluted rhetoric and almost surrealistic thoughts, . . .
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.

. . . like . . .
Gore Vidal, 1876: A Novel.
. . . Joyce’s Ulysses—strains of presidential consciousness.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.

Something had to be done at once.
Joseph Conrad, The Rescue.

But what could . . .
Jean-Denis Bredin, The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus.

. . . The President’s Men . . .
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All The President’s Men.

. . . do? Was not the press outside of the government’s control? The . . .
Jean-Denis Bredin, The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus.
. . . Administration . . .
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.

. . . sought to navigate between the imperatives of its foreign policy and those of its domestic policy. What could it do . . .
Jean-Denis Bredin, The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus.

. . . to appease . . .
Emile Gaboriau, The Honor of the Name.

. . . those screaming treason?
Jean-Denis Bredin, The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus.

The simple facts of an . . .
Ernest Newman, The Life of Richard Wagner.

. . . intermezzo of the most shameful and insidious kind . . .
Martin Gregor-Dellin, Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century.

. . . are now known to be as follows.
Ernest Newman, The Life of Richard Wagner.

Several members . . .
Henry Adams, Democracy: An American Novel.

. . . of the President’s . . .
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams.

. . . staff hit . . .
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote.

. . . on the idea of . . .
Henry Adams, Democracy: An American Novel.

. . . sending a message to . . .
Wilkie Collins, A Rogue’s Life.

. . . Mr. Nixon, . . .
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage.

. . . representing the profile . . .
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

. . . as "very superficial" and underscoring their belief that the CIA could do a better job. They wrote: "We will meet tomorrow with the head psychiatrist . . . to impress upon him the detail and depth we expect."
William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream.

Thereafter they . . .
Jack London, Created He Them.
. . . arranged a meeting . . .
Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister.

. . . with the President.
Jack London, The Unparalleled Invasion.

How the . . .
L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City.

. . . attorney for . . .
Elden LaMar, The Clothing Workers In Philadelphia: History of Their Struggles for Union and Security.
. . . the President . . .
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams.

. . . would have liked to have a full record of that meeting!
Elden LaMar, The Clothing Workers In Philadelphia: History of Their Struggles for Union and Security.

In preparing this
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Translator’s Introduction).

. . . account of the meeting . . .
Ralph Connor, The Doctor.

. . . the editors . . .
Mark Twain, Roughing It.

. . . had to contend with a number of . . .
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Translator’s Introduction).

. . . transcript pages . . .
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.

. . . which have been blocked out in . . .
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Translator’s Introduction).

. . . the original manuscript . . .
The Diary of Richard Wagner: The Brown Book — 1865-1882 (editor’s introduction).

. . . to prevent disclosure of the truth;
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.

. . . presumably.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness.

The quality of the ink used in these . . .
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Translator’s Introduction).

. . . censorship . . .
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams.
. . . operations leaves no doubt that they were performed at some later date, but by whom is an unsolved question.
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Translator’s Introduction).

Mr. Nixon thoroughly disapproved . . .
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage.

. . . of proceeding with . . .
Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son.

. . . any action, . . .
Edgar B.P. Darlington, The Circus Boys in Dixie Land.

. . . but his staff . . .
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Ambitious Guest.

. . . urged him to . . .
Wilkie Collins, The Evil Genius.

. . . carry it out.
Edgar B.P. Darlington, The Circus Boys on the Mississippi.

They then crossed the line into contemplation of criminal activity. "In this connection," they continued, "we would recommend that a covert operation be undertaken . . . ”
William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream.

. . . in stealthy haste . . .
Richard Wagner, Gotterdammerung.

. . . to examine all the medical files still held by Ellsberg's psychiatrist . . .
William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream.

—and discover, as far as opportunity allows, whether there is . . .
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Modern English Version).

. . . something in those files, something that . . .
Kristine Williams, When The Stars Walk Backwards.

. . . would serve as a . . .
Richard Wagner, My Life.

. . . weapon that . . .
Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People.

. . . might be . . .
H.G. Wells, A Moonlight Fable.

. . . good enough to attack him with.
Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People.

The President . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . cut off the discussion. “No, no, no,” he said, his voice rising.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.

It’s insanity!
Robert Ludlum, The Prometheus Deception.

In the foregoing . . .
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Friday, February 9, 1883) (editors’ emendation).

. . . the offensive word . . .
Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister.
. . . sanitized . . .
The Oxford English Dictionary.
. . . has been . . .
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Friday, February 9, 1883) (editors’ emendation).

. . . inked over . . .
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection.

. . . with the word . . .
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage.

. . . insanity.
Jack London, The People of the Abyss.

With the help of various chemical processes . . .
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Translator’s Introduction).

. . . the editors . . .
Mark Twain, Roughing It.

. . . succeeded in bringing most of the obliterated passages . . .
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Translator’s Introduction).

. . . in the . . .
Wilkie Collins, The Evil Genius.
. . . tapes, transcripts, and notes of . . .
Janet Malcolm, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Professions.

. . . Nixon’s . . .
Mark Twain, Christian Science.

. . . six-year . . .
Janet Malcolm, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Professions.

. . . Presidency . . .
International Psychoanalytic Association Newsletter.

. . . back to light, and they are now included in the text with an identification.
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Translator’s Introduction).

Have you lost your . . .
Richard Wagner, Gotterdammerung.

[left blank]
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Sunday, February 11,1883) (editors’ emendation).

. . . senses?
Richard Wagner, Gotterdammerung.

Let us be silent, let us be silent . . .
Richard Wagner, Letter to Judith Gautier.
. . . said the President, . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . nothing, not a single word of this disastrous business must be made public.
Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People.

Leave it unrevealed!—
Richard Wagner, Parsifal.

Added at the bottom of the page:

Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Sunday, February 4, 1883) (editors’ emendation).

. . . the reader might be overwhelmed by the tone and ignore the substantive support for the President’s version.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.

From what I can gather, . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . Ellsberg had been psychoanalyzed . . .
William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream.

. . . for several years;
Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker.

. . . a couple of Government . . .
Zane Grey, The Young Forester.

. . . agents had attempted to grill. . .
William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream.

. . . Mr. Fielding, . . .
Horatio Alger, Cast Upon the Breakers.

. . . the psychiatrist, but he had demurred, invoking the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship.
William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream.

And there it stood.
John Le Carre, The Night Manager.

Let us remember that . . .
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Case of Wagner.

A physician has . . . to possess . . . the subtlety of an agent of police or an advocate in comprehending the secrets of the soul without betraying them —
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human.

How much did . . .
Martin Gregor-Dellin, Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century.

. . . the President . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . suspect or know?
Martin Gregor-Dellin, Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century.

“To be honest, I have no idea. I believe the . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Prometheus Deception.

. . . full extent of the . . .
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species.

. . . operation was . . .
Henry James, Confidence.
. . . concealed from him
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers.

Partly to protect the president from knowing too much about wet work and other sordid business, to provide him with plausible deniability . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Prometheus Deception.

. . . in the face of . . .
Henry James, In the Cage.

. . . the powers and limitations . . .

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Guardian Angel.

. . . inherent in the constitution . . .
Karen Horney, New Ways in Psychoanalysis.

. . . that is, . . .
Henry James, In the Cage.

. . . the restrictions . . .
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage.

. . . inherent in the office.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.

That’s standard operating procedure in intelligence outfits worldwide. And partly, I’m sure, because the president is considered by the permanent intelligence community to be a mere tenant of the White House. A renter. He moves in for four years, maybe eight if he’s lucky, buys new china, redecorates, hires and fires, gives a bunch of speeches, . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Prometheus Deception.

. . . and large dinner-parties, . . .
Jane Austen, Emma.
. . . and then he’s gone. Whereas the spies remain. They’re the permanent Washington, the true inheritors.”
Robert Ludlum, The Prometheus Deception.

It . . .
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id.
. . . is very difficult for Americans—who are, on the whole, accustomed to open and direct dealing—to give full weight to this . . .
Raymond A. Bauer, Alex Inkeles, & Clyde Kluckhohn, How the Soviet System Works.

. . . principle of preservation . . .
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species.
. . . as I call it.
Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset.

Perhaps only those who have had fairly intimate and sustained contact with . . .
Raymond A. Bauer, Alex Inkeles, & Clyde Kluckhohn, How the Soviet System Works.

. . . the underground ways . . .
Richard Wagner, ‘The Capitulation’ (sketch for a planned farce).

. . . of secret intelligence . . .
Edith Wharton, The Reef.

. . . have a picture that approaches imaginative reality. The deviousness of behavior, the disposition to “read between the lines” and to interpret the acts of others at several different levels, the whole system of wheels within wheels—all of this is so foreign to American experience and psychology that it is all too easy to laugh it off as “E. Phillips Oppenheim stuff.”
Raymond A. Bauer, Alex Inkeles, & Clyde Kluckhohn, How the Soviet System Works.

As for the evidence . . .
Wilkie Collins, The Law and the Lady.

Well, I say, . . .
Jack London, At the End of the Rainbow.
. . . it’s not . . .
John Galsworthy, Beyond.

. . . like the overture of an opera in which all the themes are announced.
Janet Malcolm, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession.

Explaining the origin of . . .
David Berlinski, Has Darwin Met His Match?

. . . covert operations . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . by an appeal to . . .
David Berlinski, Has Darwin Met His Match?

. . . tangible evidence . . .
Jack London, Burning Daylight.
. . . is rather like explaining the origin of Don Quixote by an appeal to the physical properties of ink and paper.
David Berlinski, Has Darwin Met His Match?

The functional importance of the . . .
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id.

. . . the presidential office . . .
Ronald C. White, Jr., Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural.

. . . in this field . . .
William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.
. . . is manifested in the fact that normally control over . . .
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id.

. . .domestic-intelligence-gathering activities by the FBI, the CIA and military intelligence units. . .
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.

. . . devolves upon it. Thus in . . .
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id.

. . . the President’s . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . relation to . . .
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id.

. . . covert operations . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . he is . . .
Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset.

. . . like a man on horseback, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the . . .
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id.
. . . President of the United States . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . uses borrowed forces. The analogy may be carried a little further. Often a rider, if he is not to be parted from his horse, is obliged to guide it where it wants to go; so in the same way . . .
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id.

. . . the President . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . is in the habit of transforming the . . .
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id.

. . . intelligence community’s . . .
James Risen, Probe Faults CIA on 9/11 Terrorist.

. . . will into action as if it were . . .
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id.

. . . his own.
Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset.

But then . . .
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage.

. . . as the saying goes, . . .
H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds.

. . . the President . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . is not master in . . .
Sigmund Freud, A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis.

. . . his . . .
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id (editor’s note).

. . . own house.
Sigmund Freud, A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis.

Chief’s orders . . .
John Le Carre, The Night Manager.

. . . were to . . .
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent.

. . . use undercover operatives with no White House ties, . . .
William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream.

. . . to break into . . .
Jack London, The People of the Abyss.

. . . the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist . . .
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.

. . . and tell them . . .
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

. . . the job . . .
Edgar B.P. Darlington, The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings.

. . . concerned a traitor who was passing information to the Soviet embassy. Except for the fact that the Russians subscribe to the New York Times, this was untrue.
William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream.

How much, to repeat, did . . .
Martin Gregor-Dellin, Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century.

. . . the President . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . know of all this?
Martin Gregor-Dellin, Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century.

As always—
Henry James, The Ambassadors.

. . . the short answer is that we don’t know.
Think Tank: A Few Questions, Mr. Shakespeare.

The President . . .
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams.

. . . liked the passage from Nietzsche that . . .
Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time.

. . . the Secretary of State . . .
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent.

. . . quoted to him: “ ‘I did this,’ says my Memory. ‘I cannot have done this,’ says my Pride and remains inexorable. In the end—memory yields.”
Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time.

As to the moral part of his character, . . .
Alexandre Dumas, Ten Years Later.
. . . the President, . . .
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams.

. . . as a matter of routine, . . .
Jack London, The Sea Wolf.
. . . Amalgamated . . .
Elden LaMar, The Clothing Workers In Philadelphia: History of Their Struggles for Union and Security.

. . . Fiction and Truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fiction and Truth.

In Nixon the . . .
Bruce Mazlish, In Search of Nixon: A Psychohistorical Inquiry.

. . . good reasons . . .
Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time.

. . . and the . . .
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage.

. . . real reasons . . .
Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time.

. . . would embrace . . .
H.G. Wells, A Moonlight Fable.

. . . interlace, part and unite; like a dance.
The Diary of Richard Wagner 1865-1882 — The Brown Book.

The subject . . .
Joe Klein, The Running Mate.

. . . of covert . . .
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure.

. . . action had been . . .
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence.

. . . broached gingerly . . .
Joe Klein, The Running Mate.

. . . darkly, . . .
Richard Wagner, Gotterdammerung.

. . . and almost as a . . .
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.

. . . bothersome subplot of the greater drama, the quest to get . . .
Joe Klein, The Running Mate.

. . . the President’s . . .
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams.

. . . political . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . future squared away.
Joe Klein, The Running Mate.

Whatever the . . .
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams.

. . . President knew . . .
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.

. . . the order of the acts . . .
Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago (Excerpt from “Hamlet”).

. . . had been . . .
William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

. . . schemed and plotted,
And nothing . . .
Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago (Excerpt from “Hamlet”).
. . . could . . .
William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

. . . avert the final curtain’s fall.
Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago (Excerpt from “Hamlet”).

In the end, . . .
Edgar B.P. Darlington, The Circus Boys Across the Continent.

. . . the President . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . would be forced to . . .
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage.

. . . stand alone . . .
Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago (Excerpt from “Hamlet”).

. . . on the political stage, . . .
Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip.

. . . accountable for the . . .
Charles Dickens, Hard Times.

. . . deeds of others.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy.

The attorney for . . .
Elden LaMar, The Clothing Workers In Philadelphia: History of Their Struggles for Union and Security.

. . . the President . . .
Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic.

. . . later described . . .
Booth Tarkington, Penrod.

. . . Nixon as a stage manager . . .
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days.

—nothing more!
John Galsworthy, The Dark Flower.

. . . of a run of rehearsals for a play he had failed to take part in.
John Le Carre, The Night Manager.

It is plain that denial and hypocrisy . . .
K.R. Eissler, Discourse on Hamlet and HAMLET.

. . . two qualities that are present . . .
LuxSonor Semiconductors, Inc., The LuxSonor LS188.

. . . in every individual . . .
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents.

. . . are also . . .
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species.

. . . the very foundations of society
K.R. Eissler, Discourse on Hamlet and HAMLET.

To take an analogy from . . .
Sigmund Freud, An Outline of Psychoanalysis.

. . . psychoanalysis—
Leonard Garment, Crazy Rhythm.

We see the ego, Freud wrote, "as a poor thing, which is in threefold dangers: from the external world, from the libido of the id, and from the severity of the superego." Exposed to anxieties corresponding to these dangers, the ego, for Freud, is a beleaguered, far from omnipotent negotiator earnestly trying to mediate among the forces that threaten it and that war with one another. It labors to make the id tractable to the pressures of the world and of the superego, and at the same time tries to persuade the world and the superego to comply with the id's wishes. Since it stands midway between id and reality, the ego is in danger of "succumbing to the temptation of becoming sycophantic, opportunistic, and mendacious, rather like a statesman who, with all his good insights, still wants to keep himself in the favor of public opinion."
Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time.