Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Benton Becker, proved no match for Nixon's wily attorney, Herbert J. ("Jack") Miller Jr., or for the hard-nosed Nixon aide Ronald Ziegler. The Nixon protectors spurned all suggestions that Nixon confess or surrender control of his tapes. Although Nixon had no practical bargaining leverage, Ford meekly yielded. Columnist Mary McGrory wrote last week that "Ford is still Vice President where Nixon is concerned." Ford does indeed have a reputation for speaking before an issue is thought through, and the fact that he apparently consulted very few people on the pardon makes this theory more believable...
When it was released in 1971, the savagely anti-Nixon film Millhouse: A White Comedy earned a notice on the White House enemies list for its Marxist director, Emile de Antonio. Last week Washington Columnist Jack Anderson added some new perspective to the film's history when he revealed that Millhouse was partly financed by three nieces of Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller. According to Anderson, Peggy and Abby, daughters of Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller, and Laura, daughter of Philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller, together anted up $37,000 of the movie's $200,000 cost. A Rockefeller...
...stint in the Army brought him to Washington, where he got a job as a teletypist for the Post. Some months later a sympathetic editor recognized Raspberry's potential as a reporter. He spent four years on civil rights stories. In 1966 he got a chance as a columnist...
...some of his views, many admire his independent stands. Says a black colleague: "This fellow is not a token of anything. They don't know what he's going to write." Raspberry has no interest in being a racial spokesman: "I think of myself as a black columnist as much as Joe Kraft thinks of himself as a white columnist." That neutrality may be easier for Kraft than it is for Raspberry. Blacks still must cope with pressures and hurts that whites are spared. But Raspberry's column shows that the pain need not be disabling...