The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comments
Mailer's contribution to a New Yorker symposium on the Nixon tapes - the longest of thirty-four comments; he calls Nixon 'the stubbornest man in America.'
“The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comments,” Mailer’s contribution to a New Yorker symposium (20 May 1974) in which thirty-four people comment on the tape recordings made by President Nixon. Mailer’s comment is the longest: he calls Nixon “the stubbornest man in America,” a man “obliged to drink the cup of his own excretions.” Reprinted in The Time of Our Time (98.7).