Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...previous record low of 17 hours was set in 1972, when the Republican Convention renominated Richard Nixon...
...argument over Nixon's place in history is an argument that nobody can win in the foreseeable future, so Nixon is probably destined to spend years as a kind of Ancient Mariner, plucking at the lapels of passers-by and trying to explain his strange story. But there are other, more pleasant sides to an ex-President's life. One of Nixon's reasons for moving from California to New York in 1980 was to be nearer his daughters. Tricia lives in Manhattan with her lawyer-husband Edward Cox; Julie in Berwyn, Pa., with her husband David...
...that, the brand of unindicted co-conspirator can be neither erased nor forgotten. Nixon is still two years younger than the incumbent President and still insatiably full of ideas and strategies and ambitions. He is still an object of fascination to his foes as well as his friends. So the tenth anniversary of his departure from the Oval Office will not be a day like the others, even if nothing special happens. "I guess we will take note of it individually and in our own way," John Sears said somewhat reflectively last week. "It was, after...
...quoted in Robert Sam Anson's new book, Exile, The Unquiet Oblivion of Richard M. Nixon (Simon & Schuster...
...quibble with the editors' rather broad definition of an expert. Richard Nixon is included ("When the President does it, that means it is not illegal," 1977). Also Jimmy Carter ("Because of the greatness of the Shah, Iran is an island of stability in the Middle East," 1977). Also Ronald Reagan, often. But so are laboratories full of more justly certified savants like Lord Kelvin, the respected British physicist ("X rays are a hoax," circa 1900), and Dr. Linard Williams, medical officer to the Insurance Institute of London, who said in 1932: "If your eyes are set wide apart...