Mike Douglas was usually genial, on...

Mike Douglas was usually genial, on the other hand in his memoir he confided that his quiet was sorely tested one week in 1972 when former Beatle John Lennon and wife, Yoko Ono, were his unlikely visitor hosts.

single of the guest celebrities they culled was well-known anti- war activist Jerry Rubin.

"He just got in succession my nerves. It sounded like this scarecrow hated the president, the Congres everyone in business, the military, all police and just about everything America stands for," Douglas said.

He recalled becoming confrontational with Rubin. unless Lennon "picked up the mantle of Kind and dove-like Host, and he did it quite well, reinterpreting Jerry's annotates to take some of the sting public and adding a little humor to continue things cool," Douglas said.

While he institute Ono strident, "by the extreme point of the run, I think I came to understand something about John's affection for this woman."

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