Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rosalynn Carter. I am not Pat Nixon or Jackie Kennedy. Everybody does it differently. I discovered I would find it difficult to just sit here and not do anything except entertain. For me, having a goal is very important . . . I think you have to let a lot of things roll off your back; I was not able to do that in Sacramento or here at the beginning. But if you get a sureness about yourself and what you can do, you just go ahead...
...First Lady paid heavy dues it was Pat Nixon. Now out of sight and in fragile health, she never got the credit she deserved for her White House years. She took on Mrs. Kennedy's idea and enriched the public rooms more than any other First Lady. Her achievements were lost in the black hole of Watergate. Even in that grim episode, there was something admirable about her. She kept the dignity of her office, neither condoning the events nor deserting her husband...
...Nixon seemed more at ease, almost liberated. When she went on a good-will tour to Liberia in 1972, her personality changed almost as soon as her plane crossed the continental shelf. She glowed, laughed and lofted tiny barbs of irreverence. When native dancers appeared barebreasted, White House aides were aghast. But she watched admiringly and applauded. TIME's Bonnie Angelo, who accompanied Mrs. Nixon, recalled last week, "I saw Pat Ryan, the pretty schoolteacher from Whittier, Calif., emerge from another era and flower for a few precious days...
...beginning of a President's second term is typically a time of musical chairs. Richard Nixon, who until last November was the only President in 28 years to be elected to a second term, requested written resignations from all his top appointees one day after trouncing George McGovern. Ronald Reagan took precisely the opposite tack, asking all his advisers to stay in place...
Jones added that Kendall was an advisor on Soviet affairs to President Richard M. Nixon in the early 70's and that he served on the U.S. Board of the Chamber of Commerce...