Word: nixon
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...grammar and punctuation at times were-well, unconventional. And so were the thoughts in at least one passage of the three-page handwritten letter, dated July 15, 1960, and addressed to Richard Nixon (as "Dear Mr. Vice Pres."). Discussing Nixon's opponent for the presidency, the author wrote...
...letter was unearthed from a trove of Nixon's papers in a branch of the National Archives in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Last week Walter Mondale read the passage to campaign audiences to back up his charge that Reagan is guilty of "political grave robbing" when he invokes the names of such Democrats as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman-and, yes, John F. Kennedy. Presidential Spokesman Larry Speakes replied that Reagan "had been pleasantly surprised to find the difference between Kennedy the candidate and Kennedy the President...
...sure the American people do not want the government paid services 'at any price' . . . If we start down the road to statism it leads to socialism." Answer: Reagan made the third statement last week, commenting on the 1960 letter; the first two are from the letter itself. Nixon evidently was impressed by Reagan's letter. At the top he scrawled a note to a campaign aide: "Use him [Reagan] as speaker whenever possible. He used to be a liberal...
Judith Martin used to spend much of her time on "what we called the garbage run," flitting from White House dinners to Embassy Row cocktail parties as a society reporter for the Washington Post. (Her most memorable distinction was being officially banned from Tricia Nixon's wedding.) While acting as a features reporter and a drama critic, she asked her editor one day in 1978 if she could try a column on etiquette; she got a very skeptical go-ahead. "Editors all thought etiquette was dead," says Martin. "Even the word was a joke. I thought I was just...
...Nixons were less amusing. When the White House decreed that reporters covering Julie Nixon's wedding reception had to stay outside and rely on briefings, Martin sneaked in by masquerading as a friend of a bridesmaid. She subsequently found herself banned from Tricia Nixon's wedding, but perhaps that was because she had written that Tricia dressed "like an ice-cream cone." The White House announcement explained that "the First Family does not feel comfortable with Judith Martin." Remarked Martin's husband: "I'm scared to live in a country that...