Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...architect. If it is short on commitments on specific issues, so is Nixon. If seven of the twelve live west of the Alleghenies, that was the source of the votes. Though a son of the Pacific Coast and a man of the Atlantic, Nixon has always had his political heart in the Midwest...
...Nixon had had Rogers in mind for Secretary of State for some time. Rogers has enjoyed Nixon's complete trust since the 1952 campaign, when he advised Nixon during the furor over the "Nixon fund" and helped frame the famous Checkers speech. In 1955, when Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, Nixon turned to Rogers before anyone else. "He was a friend," Nixon later wrote in Six Crises, "who had proved during the fund crisis that he was a cool man under pressure, had excellent judgment, and was one to whom I could speak with complete freedom without any concern...
...months later, I was back in Cambridge, and another reading period mania was settling in. It was just too bleak out to go anywhere, and it was one of those terrible periods when you already knew the last Beatles album by heart, and you knew there wouldn't be another one for months, and you had been to Tommy's so often that it only made things worse...
...that turns out to be the most meaningful, but rather as the unit of man's hopeless groping for meaning that finally runs out on him. Yes, his characters do come up with sentences that explain their purpose in life, sentences which send us, the readers, into chuckles of heart-warmed complacency when we discover them; but Vonnegut's people never stop hoping for a better explanation of what's happening...
...directed U.S. Sen. George Murphy's campaign in 1964, and he ran comfortably on Ronald Reagan's ticker for Lieutenant-Governor. Perhaps both men have decided that the cities deserve more than tax incentives to lure business into the ghettoes, but they have no indicated any change of heart since the election. Nixon's biggest contribution to the urban crisis has been to appoint Rogers--a county bond specialist--as Attorney-General instead of the J. Edgar Hoover type his campaign promised...