Tuesday Television

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[Outro, Richard Hack, Matt Lauer]
-taken of Howard Hughes, and the weird thing is it was taken 25 years before he died... That's right
Why did... why did he retreat so thoroughly from the public?
Well, for one thing, he didn't have to deal with them; he would have so much money, that he could lay naked in a bed, blacked-out room, talking on the telephone and do all his business, everybody else was out there doing it, and on top of that he was a sociopath, he didn't like people. He didn't like- even his aides, who were the only people he saw he did allow to talk to them
And you talk about the cleanliness issue, the fear of germs, perhaps a result of the way his mother raised him
Definitely, she would wash him down with lice soap every morning, she would check his teeth like a horse, she looked in the toilet then his feces to see if there was tapeworms, but mind you, it was a different that there were... Miliaria, typhoid, there were epidemics everywhere, so she was concerned
Here are the rules for when someone would come into the room where he was staying, this is part of the memo, it says before opening the door to the room, the man is to stand with a folded newspaper in his right hand, rapidly wave it for at least a minute to eliminate the possibility that flies will enter the room; using eight Kleenexes placed on the left hand, the man who's rapidly waving the newspaper will knock on the door, when H.R.H. responds the man will open the door using the hand with the Kleenex, I mean... Right, as opposed to the dirty hand, I mean... Hello, Howard, you know... the man wasn't that compulsive, lets face it, but on the other hand, he was absolutely the most amazing man that America has ever created, ever
Okay, I have got to interrupt you right now...
Sorry...
Richard Hack, thank you very much, we appreciate, the book is called "Hughes"-