Word: aspenization
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...disputes without plunging into the adversary process, and until voters stop insisting that every perceived wrong be countered with new law and move to reclaim some of the rule-making authority they have consigned to judges and bureaucrats by default. In the words of Robert McKay, director of the Aspen Institute's Program on Justice, Society and the Individual and former New York University Law School dean: "If war is too important to be left to the generals, surely justice is too important to be left to lawyers...
...president, they didn't compete. They'd raised so much hell partying in 1973 that they were asked not to return. By that time, though, the tradition of an annual group trip was established. In 1974, with money raised through raffles and equipment sales, they went to Aspen for a week. In 1975, Jim now a high school senior and a Senior Patrolman, they went to Telluride, where they hit the big time...
...something of a daredevil. During the junior patrol trip to Aspen in 1974, he was standing with friends on the last slope at the Snowmass-at-Aspen area, which runs between two lodges. He turned to Jim and handed him his parka. "Watch this," he said, and took off down the slope. He made a few quick turns, then headed for a bump, took a huge jump, and landed in the middle of a lodge swimming pool, which was unoccupied. He swam around the pool collecting his equipment, which came off when he hit the water, climbed...
Safer is more the way Richard Nixon viewed it. Turning the hideaway into a virtual hideout during the Watergate era, Nixon would spend long hours in his favorite armchair next to Aspen's massive central fireplace, with legal pads on his knee, trying to explain away the crisis...
Before his Watergate days, Nixon used Camp David to draft many of his important speeches. In his first term alone, Nixon made nearly 120 trips to the camp, refurbished Aspen into a posh home and converted the cluster of other cabins into a mini-White House. Nixon also added new cabins to the grounds, one of which was used by Daughter Tricia and Edward Cox on their honeymoon. Tricia aptly called it a "resort hotel where you are the only guests...