Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was only the first of many Tuck jokes to be played on Richard Nixon. In the 1960 presidential campaign, Nixon flew to Memphis after his first television debate with John Kennedy. Greeting him as he left the airplane was an effusive matron wearing an oversize Nixon button; she flung her arms around him and commiserated: "Don't worry, son. Kennedy won last night but you'll do better next time." Nixon visibly paled, while sandwiched among the press corps, Tuck was laughing at the stunt he had improvised. One day Nixon was in the middle...
...know where Nixon was at all times, had locator boxes in their offices. They were: H.R. Haldeman, onetime chief of staff; Dwight L. Chapin, onetime presidential appointments secretary; Stephen B. Bull, who assisted Chapin with appointments; and Butterfield, then a Haldeman aide. Butterfield also had on his phone a button that could turn on the microphones in the Cabinet Room. When the locator box indicated that the President had entered the Cabinet Room, Butterfield pressed a switch that started the recording device there. Under the table in the Cabinet Room were two buttons the President could use to operate...
...Ford Motor Co., a U.A.W. official turned up in a kilt and sporran, sporting a button that demanded a wage increase of 27.5%-JUST LIKE HENRY...
...gray-blue flannel suit leaned across his tidy teak desk, past the elegant brown calf briefcase with gold combination locks, and pressed one of the 30 buttons on his elaborate intercom. "What's on TV tonight?" he asked. "Only some weight lifting," a male secretary replied. "Oh, all right," the button-pusher said. "We haven't got time anyway...
...arrested. There were reports that some naval officers accused of participation in last month's mutiny attempt (TIME, June 11) were being tortured. Portraits of the King vanished from walls in restaurants and other public places. Military insignia bearing the crown were ripped off uniforms, creating a severe button crisis-each officer's uniform requires 13 buttons. Regime-approved replacements are nonexistent and tailors are making do with plain metal buttons...