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...Nixon looked especially awkward losing to John F. Kennedy in 1960, and then following him as president eight years later. His White House was no Camelot; Pat Nixon, of the "good old Republican cloth coat," couldn't match Jackie Kennedy, the movie princess swathed in Cassini couture; and Milhous was, in media terms, a throwback. As Kennedy was the first TV president, Nixon was the last Chief Executive of radio. (See pictures of TIME's JFK covers...
Here's an unorthodox candidate for the title of America's greenest President: Richard Milhous Nixon. It was the arch-Republican Nixon, after all, who created the Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality, who signed the landmark Clean Air Act into law. Nixon isn't the only Republican President who can claim a green legacy. Environmentalism as a political force effectively began with President Theodore Roosevelt, a lifelong conservationist and outdoorsman who made Yosemite a national park and created 42 million acres of national forests. And even George H.W. Bush, whose promise to be the "environmental President...
...McCarthy hearings) ... he needled some popular historic myths and a few political reputations. Now, in Millhouse, De Antonio has employed his usual technique of matching fragments of news film with quick on-camera interviews to produce an unflattering but funny likeness of the 37th President (whose middle name is Milhous, not Millhouse, but let that go). To be sure, De Antonio's jubilant bias sometimes plays him false. Nixon is too often seen stumbling over a foot or a phrase, and sometimes satire descends to the level of easy derision ... But when it works, De Antonio's sense of juxtaposition...
...William Milhous Clinton," proclaimed the Wall Street Journal's editorial headline, making the ubiquitous Monicagate-to-Watergate connection that was popular in print pieces Tuesday. "[The privilege claim] is a sure sign that, despite the Monica-sex furor of the past few weeks, the worst is yet to come...
...year the Nixons gave away small orange cards with drawings of witches and black cats on them. At the top of the card was printed, "The Nixon Family wishes you a Happy Halloween." Below the message was what made the card so valuable: the signature of Richard Milhous Nixon. These cards made excellent refrigerator decorations...