Word: nixon
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...HEIGHT of his glory, with Richard Nixon a political four letter word and investigative the only proper prefix to reporting, Bob Woodward, the reporter, became readily interchangeable with Bob Redford, the actor cum social activist who portrayed our hero in All the President's Men. Running from interview to interview, rendezvousing with "deep throat" in D.C. parking garages, Bob Woodward Redford seemed like a hyped-up, race car driver in some charity benefit for the good old public right-to-know...
...more Woodward clings to the fringes of his departing glory as Nixon's nemesis, the further he travels from any commendable conception of his role of a reporter and the more he dangerously confuses the public's right to participate in national governance with an animal instinct for voyeurism and gossip of every sort. "When a man accepts the public trust." Jefferson said, "he becomes like a public property." Yet however much Nixon and Belushi may be "public figures" in the eyes of the court, the moral quality of the grouping is disingenuous. As an elected official possessing the actual...
...might, Woodward has yet to show us the end. While uncovering what may be remembered as one of America's gravest political crises, Woodward and his investigative-reporting-as-war style of journalism seemed appropriate enough for helping drive Nixon from the White House. Applied as it is now, it takes on a new macabre element. In his own race through journalism, he has racked up enough points for the wrecked lives in his wake, but he's yet to fully explain just where he is going. It will remain for some more imaginative journalist than Woodward to define just...
...counted in anyone's corner, but "when my right-wing confreres and pols depart from principle I feel particularly pained." His working motto is "Kick them when they're up." He recently defended Bert Lance when he was down. Safire used to write speeches for Richard Nixon, but the fact that Nixon has been lately taken up by liberals for his advocacy of detente, Safire says, provoked a column calling Nixon "soft on Communism...
...time to close the gate. Ten years is a long time for any political fashion, and it is exactly ten years since the resignation of Richard Nixon. In that decade we have had Watergate, Koreagate, Lancegate, Billygate and now Ferrarogate, with Meesegate and Debategate on temporary hold. The chronology yields a list in roughly descending order of importance. We have come a long way. From a President resigning for, among other things, organizing a squad of "plumbers" specializing in break-ins, to a vice-presidential candidate arraigned before the bar of the media to answer questions, among others, about...