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Today, as Richard Milhous Nixon is laid the rest, it is time to remember the man as he was in life, not as the myth which President Bill Clinton and the press have been trying to portray this week. This fairy-tale of Nixon--as a man with an indomitable spirit, whose stunning political comebacks and foreign policy successes are unparalleled--is a farce...
...staff's cruel indictment of Richard Milhous Nixon on his funeral day gives short shrift to the lasting accomplishments and profound impact of America's 37th president. Today, as the nation bids him farewell, we should remember President Nixon as a man who, perhaps more than any other in the past half century, helped to define our modern political life...
...death was so unlike his life. Quiet, private, and dignified. After his stroke last week, Richard Milhous Nixon slipped into a deep coma and then, late last Friday, completed his journey to the hereafter. For a man who was responsible for the most serious governmental disgrace in the history of this land, the reaction to his passing was surprisingly sympathetic...
...Richard Milhous Nixon was the only American president ever to resign. His treachery and deceit while at the pinnacle of power in the free world sullied the Oval Office and betrayed the trust implicit in the most sacred of American possesions, the vote...
...everyone had to have three names. Harry S. Truman holds the distinction of being the only president to go by his middle initial and middle name at the same time. Dwight David Eisenhower, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Richard M. Nixon all used one or the other. ("Milhous," Nixon's middle name, sounded like another word for puke and looked misspelled anyway. But he had to be RMN--his autobiography is even called RMN--since FDR, JFK and LBJ had so much fun with their initials...