Word: loyalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only player unheard from during the week's alarms was Doe, still holed up with a few hundred loyalist troops inside the executive mansion. Looking back over the disastrous war, which has now cost some 5,000 lives in the past seven months, U.S. officials could only wonder how their $500 million in a decade of generous aid had ended like this...
...also, some say, a possible king--is Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky. Rosovsky is the consummate Harvard insider, having served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and holding a prestigious University Professorship as well as a seat on the Corporation. He is also the ultimate Harvard loyalist, and is famous for turning down the presidency of Yale in 1977 in order to keep his Harvard deanship...
...Ever the loyalist, Safire has never recanted his membership in the Nixon alumni association. The two men talk at length about once a year, largely about pro football and foreign policy. Safire reveled in an October column contrasting Nixon's unpaid and unofficial mission to China to Ronald Reagan's $2 million jetcapade to Japan. The former speechwriter is not oblivious to the vices of Watergate; he just refuses to allow them to drown what he sees as Nixon's virtues. Before she died, Safire's mother asked him, "How could you work in the Watergate White House...