Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Starlight Roof of the Waldorf-Astoria. Reporters timed their handshake at a long 23 seconds. Gromyko reminded Reagan that they had greeted each other once before, in 1973, when the then Governor of California was introduced to Soviet officials accompanying Leonid Brezhnev on a visit to President Nixon in San Clemente.* Reagan and Gromyko encountered each other again during the "mix and mingle" portion of the reception, and the Soviet leader indulged in some skeptical banter. Referring to Reagan's forthcoming speech to the U.N., Gromyko asked the President, in English, "How many arrows will you shoot...
...points: the Commander in Chief has more leverage over his forces than the rest of us have over carpenters. And if carpenters are dilatory, the kitchen is inconvenient; if the Commander in Chiefs employees are dilatory, people die." The New York Times's William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, called Reagan's remarks on the bombings "even more pusillanimous than Jimmy Carter's protracted hand-wringing at the seizure of hostages in Tehran." If Reagan "does not have the means or guts to defend our embassy," contended Safire, "he should have the good grace to close...
...best part of American political sleaze, however, is its bipartisan nature: Johnson or Nixon, Kennedy or Reagan--there always seems to be plenty of sleaze...
Pondering all these hints, New York Times Columnist William Safire, a Reagan supporter and former Nixon speechwriter, suggested last week that Mondale might yet put on a stretch drive reminiscent of Silky Sullivan, a horse that ran a quarter-century ago and was famous for close finishes in races that appeared hopelessly lost. Safire even provided a script of sorts. Key elements...
...primary, few have had more enduring impact than the little magazines of political and literary opinion. At the 70-year-old New Republic, Owner Martin Peretz likes to say, "Our circulation is only 97,000, but it is the right 97,000." Among the magazine's subscribers: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Geraldine Ferraro and Edward Kennedy. Traditionally, the opinion magazines have preached to the converted, offering the dependable pleasures of a party line. But since Peretz bought the liberal weekly in 1974, he has guided it to enhanced revenues and much heightened influence by making it resolutely...