Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just five months after her divorce from the duke and 17 months after the death of her older sister Eugenie, Niarchos' third wife, from what was officially ruled to be an overdose of sleeping pills. Tina's death was discovered by a maid as she brought breakfast to her bedroom, while Niarchos was asleep in another room...
Anxious to heal the rift with Congress, Ford and Kissinger briefed nine senior Congressmen at breakfast the next day on Chile and covert affairs in general. Later, at a previously scheduled hearing on détente, Kissinger reiterated before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the intent of the CIA operation in Chile was merely to keep the Allende opposition alive and "not to destabilize or subvert" his government. Kissinger also conducted two separate briefings at the Senate. Still, Congress was neither convinced nor mollified. As the week progressed, growing numbers of Representatives and Senators called for an all-out review...
...third period, after Ford's assumption of the presidency, most commentators apparently decided--undoubtedly correctly--that it was better to be honest but dumb than to be smart and a crook. "Gerald Ford is Middle America," Time magazine said firmly. As long as Ford continued to cook his own breakfast and refused to follow his predecessor in fattening himself at the public expense, commentaries indicated, all would be right with the republic. Like Lytton Strachey's eminent Victorian, they were obsessed with the ideal of saintliness and convinced of the supreme importance of not eating too much...
...that Ford has stopped cooking his own breakfast, about all the commentators have left him is his honesty. The inadequacy of such a simple formulation suggests why they're so ready to reverse themselves at such length at such short notice. The result is to reduce the politics of the day to the president's personal character, and his personal character to reporters' changing fancy...
Muffin Theory. Undermined, too, was the pleasant notion that Ford, a direct, uncomplicated Midwesterner who used to prepare his own breakfast, is wholly unlike those crafty politicians who maneuver for personal prestige and luxuries during careers on either coast. Columnist George Will thus notes the death of the "English Muffin Theory of History ... that a President who toasts his own English muffins for breakfast is somehow different from the general cut of politicians...