Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this special issue, we try to assess the state of the union, describe Ford's entrance and Nixon's exit, introduce the new President, his family and his team, recall Richard Nixon's extraordinary rise and fall, witness the agony of his family, assess his legal future. We also recapitulate the long, fatal Watergate misadventure that felled him, attempt to evoke the mood of the nation, and hear from various commentators about what last week's tragic yet hopeful developments mean to the U.S. and where the country moves from there. The consensus seems...
...exit and the entrance were a poignant reminder of the smoothness with which the American system can transfer the world's most powerful office from one man to another. "Mr. Vice President," Burger intoned, "are you prepared to take the oath of office as President of the United States?" "I am, sir," Ford replied. Even before the Chief Justice asked him to do so, Ford raised his right hand, placing his left on a Bible held by his wife. It was opened to the Book of Proverbs, third chapter, fifth and sixth verses, which Ford says every night...
...Note: The drive to the picturesque American Shakespeare Theatre's grounds on the Housatonic River takes about two and a half hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, Interstate 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 32 or 31. Performances in the air-conditioned Theatre begin promptly at 2 and 8 p.m. There are free facilities for picnickers on the premises; and a vocal quartet, accompanied by a lutanist, perform Elizabethan madrigals in costume on the lawn prior to each performance...
...fear of being left out. He was used to that. But he did have an obsessive fear of being locked in. The last day of his junior year, he was still cleaning up his room and packing his things when they locked the only exit to the House. They had locked him in. The superintendent had left for the day, and he had no way to get out. It was enough to drive a crazy person sane...
Thompson Indicts. Daley has compelling reasons to use his illness as a pretext for an honorable exit when his fifth four-year term ends next April...