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Nixon went after personal achievement and material success. Life became a contest where the strong and persistent endured, the controlled and clever won the field. Each person looked out for himself and his, worried about his own life more than his neighbor's. Horatio Alger may have entered McGovern's life, but not nearly so much as the apostle Peter. If there was endurance and struggle and self-improvement, it was often related to other people or grander designs. In those small towns of Depression days the churches taught history through the Bible and the music that came...
Richard Nixon is fond of the Horatio Alger cast to his life, but there is one milestone to go: he is not yet a millionaire. He is on the way, however, as shown by financial statements released last week by the White House on both the President and Vice President Spiro Agnew. The first such public accounting since 1969 notes that the President's net worth, thanks largely to his real estate investments-and inflation-has risen from $596,900 to $765,118. Nixon's assets...
There is also a plentiful selection of heros for pragmatic temperaments. William Randolph Hearst 1885 made a smash with his pet animals in Matthews 46 before being thrown out at Christmas the next year for presenting inscribed chamber pots to each of his tutors. Horatio Alger 1860 himself started get-rich-quick fabulizing in Hotworthy...
...National Presbyterian Church, not far from the house where Hoover was born, Richard Nixon did him the additional honor of delivering the funeral eulogy. The two men had had a mutual admiration ever since the days when Nixon, a freshman Congressman from California, had begun his pursuit of Alger Hiss and "the Communist conspiracy." Hoover, said Nixon, "was one of the giants, a man who helped keep steel in America's backbone and the flame of freedom in America's soul...
Sounds interesting--a Horatio Alger story brought up to date and humanized (for Pacino really is a very human, nice guy): a lonely, cbscure, insecure little boy works like a fiend and as a result ends up a brilliant, famous, albeit still slightly insecure, actor. How must it feel? "A little scary," says Pacino. Can he handle it? "Yes," he says firmly, "now I'm prepared." And with the sudden resolve, even the most confirmed skeptic can see it: an intensity of purpose which, in this one respect, makes Al Pacino resemble--well, yes--Michael Corleone...