Nixon Speaks
While the show was on air, the then President of the United States, Nixon, can be heard on the Watergate tapes, talking about the show! Especially the 1971 episodes “Writing the President” and “Judging Books by Covers”.
Conditions
Donna McCrohan said that Carroll O’Connor actually had requested to Lear that he provide him with a return ticket to Rome on the condition he accept the role. So this way he could “return to Italy when the show failed”.