Word: boyhoods
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Former President Richard Nixon was buried Wednesday after a ceremony at his boyhood home in Yorba Linda, California. Among the 3,000 mourners were delegates from more than 80 countries and five U.S. Presidents, including Bill Clinton, who delivered one of four eulogies. The service, led by the Rev. Billy Graham, focused on Nixon's foreign policy achievements, touching only obliquely upon the Watergate scandal. "He achieved greatly, and he suffered deeply," said former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "But he never gave up." Earlier, an estimated 42,000 visitors had stood for hours in chilly, damp weather...
...seat up front in the arena and a 7 a.m. breakfast with Zig Ziglar, a former pots- and-pans salesman billed as "America's No. 1 Motivational Speaker." Over doughnuts and coffee with 300 other "VIPs," I nodded and laughed along with everyone else at stories of his hardscrabble boyhood in Yazoo City, Mississippi, where his mother said motivational things like this: "You're going to have to lick that calf over again. That job might be all right for some boys. But you're not most boys. You can do better...
Rigor is certainly what Clinton can expect. Stephens, 47, is a lifelong Republican with impressive academic and prosecutorial credentials. After a boyhood on an Iowa farm, he studied at Harvard College and Law School and at Oxford. He spent a brief time in private practice, became an assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal under Leon Jaworski and rose steadily through top-level posts at the Justice Department and White House. During one tour, he was Ronald Reagan's deputy White House counsel, the job the late Vincent Foster held under Clinton at the time of his death last July...
That was not the career for which he seemed headed in boyhood as Louis Eugene Walcott in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, then beginning its shift from a predominantly Jewish area to a black one. A choirboy at St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, he ran relays in track and made his way to Winston-Salem Teachers College in North Carolina, which he attended for two years. But his real gift was for music. He played the violin obsessively, retreating to the bathroom with bow in hand for three to five hours at a stretch. He also sang and played guitar...
Opportunity for escape came in the form of a strange, dreamlike journey in which Jade helped a wounded prison guard reach a hospital (where North Vietnamese doctors shrugged and amputated a nearly healed leg). Jade managed to slip away into the chaos of a broken society. A boyhood friend sheltered him, and they scrabbled to find money for an escape by boat to Thailand. Twice they were turned back. Before the third attempt was successful, pirates boarded their boat, stole everything and raped the women. Jade and one of his brothers found their way to a refugee camp and spent...