Strange bedfellows mesh

'NIXON'S NIXON'

Highly Recommended

When: Through Oct. 19

Where: Writers' Theatre at Books on Vernon, 664 Vernon, Glencoe

Tickets: $60-$75

Phone: (847) 242-6000

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Talk about powerhouse political marriages (and I don't mean the Clintons). As Exhibit A, see the pairing of Richard Nixon, one of the more notorious and complicated figures in American presidential history, and Henry Kissinger, the German-Jewish refugee who Nixon liked to say he "plucked" from the halls of Harvard to serve as his national security adviser and secretary of state.

Though in many ways these men could not have been more different, something about …