Word: milhous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON: THE RISE OF AN AMERICAN POLITICIAN...
Roger Morris' Richard Milhous Nixon, to be published later this month, tracks the future President from distant ancestry through the 1952 election. A Harvard-trained political scientist who worked briefly in Nixon's White House, Morris has written critical books on two former colleagues, Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger. Now he starts a Nixon trilogy that promises (threatens?) to be more exhaustive than Ambrose's. From Morris we learn details about Nixon's first political victims, Jerry Voorhis and Helen Gahagan Douglas (why Voorhis flubbed the debate with his upstart opponent, why prominent Democrats such as Joe and Jack Kennedy...
...clubbing and gassing of demonstrators brought a new term into the American lexicon -- "police riot." When the beating and rock throwing stopped, the Democratic Party lay in ruins. An alarmed Middle America turned its attention to Miami where the Republicans, unbeleaguered by the Armies of the Night, hoisted Richard Milhous Nixon toward the Presidency. The era of the Silent Majority was about to begin...
Most Americans older than 13 already know more about Richard Milhous Nixon than they may realize or, in many cases, appreciate. To a remarkable extent, his life has been led in public, his up-and-down and then up-again-and-down- again career a long-running soap opera that played on all the networks. The ubiquitous male lead was regularly humiliated (Who can forget the Checkers episode in 1952 or the "last press conference" in 1962?), but he always bounced back, a new Nixon, ready for another crisis that would again display his anguish before a dumbfounded public...
...plain to see that at the center of the tiny cylindrical stage hurtling through the sky over the Atlantic was none other than the rascal of the age, Richard Milhous Nixon. The other two Presidents watched him. Jimmy Carter could not contain his curiosity. Former Press Secretary Jody Powell noticed that Carter stayed with Nixon. They talked about China and some of the personalities in Washington ("How wicked that must have been!" chortled one witness...