Bill Daily has passed away

He was one of the greatest supporting performers in TV sitcom history.

The obits tend to focus on his role as the guy who was always trying to steal away the genie in “I Dream of Jeannie,” but I think he gave me the most laughs with his clueless non-sequiturs as the daffy neighbor on “The Bob Newhart Show.”

About that letter stolen from Trump’s desk so he wouldn’t sign it …

The Woodward book excerpts told the story about how Gary Cohn stole a letter from Trump’s desk so he wouldn’t screw up a deal we had with South Korea. That deal involved both trade and military co-operation.

Needless to say, Trump said the whole thing was fake news. I hesitate to say Trump lied because it’s possible that he just forgot the whole incident, just as Cohn hoped he would when he stole the letter.

But Woodward and his publisher had a little surprise for Trump, something not mentioned in the excerpts – it seems that Cohn kept the purloined letter, and it is reproduced in the book.

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