Fonda proved a disappointment. She never incited, and abusive language wasn’t her style. The president, however, was obsessed with her case (“What Brezhnev and Jane Fonda said got about the same treatment,” one aide later recalled), and in fall the powers that be arranged for her to be stopped at customs at the Cleveland airport. When she pushed aside agents who refused her access to the bathroom (she was having her period), she was arrested for assaulting an officer. In her possession were pills marked, mysteriously, B, L, and D; for possessing vitamins to be taken with breakfast, lunch, and
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