The Begatting of a President

[Harvey Chartrand]

Did Welles' involvement in The Begatting of the President satirical LP have dire consequences for him? Did the Nixon White House make Orson's life difficult?
And does anyone feel as I do that The Begatting of the President is about as funny as cancer?
I'm just trying to get a little something going here as the chronic silence on this message board of late is really getting to me.
Contrast this long silence to the Glenn Ford message board, where there's a new posting every 30 minutes. (www.glennfordonline.com)

[Jeff Wilson]

Welles certainly didn't have trouble getting roles after doing this, so I doubt Nixon took action against him. As for the recording, it isn't particularly funny, but it has a couple moments, I guess. It was a paycheck. I can't help but think Welles was ahead of time here also, considering the boom in audio books. Welles would have had no shortage of jobs in that arena, were he still around.

And Harvey, comparing us to the Glenn Ford board? That hurts. I didn't even know the guy was still alive, but at least he answers some questions. Maybe I can locate a used Ouija board or Magic 8-Ball and we can ask Welles some pertinent questions. ;)



Edited By Jeff Wilson on Dec. 04 2002 at 17:58

[jaime marzol]

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glenn ford is still alive? there is a glenn ford board?

i never heard begatting of the president.

if jeff gets that ouija board, ask orson where he left the rest of the don q footage.

[Terry]

This is the LP version of the political parable by Myron Roberts, Lincoln Hayes and Sasha Gilien, from 1969.

Part 1 http://www.box.net/shared/lxjbm8vy59
Part 2 http://www.box.net/shared/vr6i3dzug8

[Terry]

Nothing to do with Welles, unless you're taking the Simon Callow approach (in volume one of his biography, if not volume two) of detailing the landscape which would have informed our protagonist at a particular point in time (in this case, late 1973.)

I thought Glenn would be bemused, at any rate.

http://www.archive.org/details/RichardN ... -20Oct1973

http://www.archive.org/details/RichardN ... -17Nov1973

[Glenn Anders]

Thanks, Hadji:

I was impressed by how crisp and logical the reporting of that evening and its aftermath was, how the reportage cut through what we now call "the spin" to the elementals of the Impeachment crisis.

We are really in a far worse crisis today, but the Congress is either too timid or too venal to force action.

Orson Welles did his part, in Nixon's case, by putting out the "The Begatting of the President."

The flavor of that LP is available here:

http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=263603

Glenn

[Wellesnet]

Those links are no longer valid, but it is on Youtube:
Part1:


Part2: