Roy Cohn makes another pop culture appearance, this time alongside Barbara Walters
Peter Gethers, who edited Walters's autobiography, puts it this way in the doc: 'She did not have the strongest moral compass. She was a pretty transactional person.'
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Cohn mastered the dark arts of the big lie (repeating the same falsehood over and over until it is perceived as the truth) and indignant denial. For all his brutality, he was also seductive, and very influential. A cursory glance at the current political landscape should provide ample evidence of that.
Chris Vognar, a freelance culture writer, was the 2009 Nieman Arts and Culture Fellow at Harvard University.
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