Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of California, Berkeley, feels quite differently about the term. In a monumental new book bluntly titled Bribes (Macmillan; $29.95), he applies the word to figures as distinguished as Francis Bacon and Thomas a Becket, and to a whole array of U.S. Presidents: Monroe, Garfield, Johnson, Nixon. Noonan's 5,000-year chronicle of scandals is deplorably entertaining, but what is still more interesting is his demonstration of how the whole concept of bribery has evolved...
...deranged industrialist reveals a crude cynicism. On Lyndon Johnson: "I have done this kind of business with him before. So, he wears no awe-inspiring robe of virtue with me." On Hubert Humphrey: "A candidate who needs us and wants our help . . . somebody we control sufficiently." On Richard Nixon: "My man. He I know for sure knows the facts of life...
...hire Bob Kennedy's entire organization," wrote Hughes to Maheu shortly after hearing that the Senator was dead. Maheu managed to get the lobbying services < of Lawrence O'Brien, Kennedy's campaign manager and later Democratic Party chairman. Because of O'Brien's connection with Hughes, Drosnin argues, Nixon feared disclosure of the cash in his friend's bank and ordered the plumbers into O'Brien's Watergate office. The purpose was to dig up enough Democratic dirt to keep O'Brien quiet...
...link cause and effect too narrow. It is hard to believe that disclosure of the Hughes cash was all the White House worried about, or that the gift was the only potential scandal the opposition party was sitting on. A paranoid with bottomless pockets may have indirectly caused Nixon's final political crisis, but he was probably not the main reason. In addition, Drosnin's case is not helped by pop-novel techniques that cheapen his journalistic efforts: "But now aboard Air Force One, the President was gripped by a darker thought. The terrible fear that O'Brien knew --that...
Lacy and Hanks gradually won converts, including Presidents Nixon and Ford. Among the more conspicuous results of the continuing effort at NEA: two agencies, NASA and the Labor Department, now have a corporate identity with distinctive logotypes and uniform graphics; the U.S. Government occasionally holds design competitions for important civic works, a practice it generally has frowned on for almost two centuries. And, equally important, at the * instigation of the present NEA chairman, Frank Hodsoll, President Reagan elevated the prestige of the good-design movement in the Federal Government by establishing quadrennial presidential awards for design excellence...