Word: heeler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next sessions with Frost he'll talk about his foreign policy triumphs, and try to establish his legacy, his attempt, as he put it, "to build a generation of peace." But Nixon was a hack, not a statesman. He was the ultimate mediocrity, the ad account executive, the ward heeler raised to high office. The only emotion that the interview generates is not pity--Nixon is too warped and amoral for that--but hatred. Let him go east, like Cain, into the land of Nod. In the end, perhaps the best thing that can be said of the interviews...
...accusations raised in the grand jury indictments of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans-along with a notorious financial freebooter and a leading New Jersey Republican-form a sleazy story that might well give pause to even the most hardened ward heeler...
...imaginative insanity began. For example, he gets into some very heavy slander: NBC's John Chancellor (who he seems to like) is a "dope-addled fascist bastard," Muskie is "a bonehead who steals his best lines from old Nixon speeches," and Hubert Humphrey is a "treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current." He doesn't pretend to cover the campaign thoroughly: he ignores some events and deals with others in detail, looking for an essence rather than a careful report...
...anticlimactic end to what Perón had hoped would be a return to power after twelve years of exile in Madrid. He had entered Argentina 28 days earlier like a returning folk hero. He exited like a rejected ward heeler, frustrated by the refusal of Argentina's current strongman, Alejandro Lanusse, to rescind an edict requiring presidential candidates to have been in Argentina on Aug. 25 (Lanusse announced last week that he will not be a candidate either). Perón had also been hurt by defections within his own Justicialist Front. Four parties dropped out amidst arguments...
...feelings in Neponset on the stadium were made perfectly, if somewhat emotionally, clear last week during a public hearing in which every ward-heeler and political hack in Dorchester and South Boston took the dais to contribute his share of abuse...