Word: nixon
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This is the way almost every day begins for Richard Nixon, now 71, the 37th President of the U.S. and the only one who demonstrably violated the law and resigned in disgrace. Since Nixon is a methodical man, his days pass in much the same way, and so, Thursday, Aug. 9, will probably be much like any other. But there must come a moment when Nixon remembers that this was the day, ten years ago, when he gave up the power and the glory that he had fought for all his life...
...television screens of an avidly watching nation and announced the almost inevitable and yet unbelievable decision to resign. After two years of trying to escape the Watergate scandal-the bungled burglary at Democratic headquarters, and then the coverup, the lies, the hush money, the demands upon subordinates to "stonewall"-Nixon finally invoked the language of Theodore Roosevelt to describe himself as "the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs. . ." Next day, the official day of resignation, he was near tears as he bade his staff farewell. He talked...
...Nixon seemed to have thoroughly destroyed himself when he flew off that morning into a self-imposed exile in Southern California. Though his resignation canceled the House Judiciary Committee's unanimous vote to impeach him, Nixon still faced a real danger of being indicted and imprisoned for obstruction of justice. A month after the resignation, President Gerald Ford granted Nixon a blanket pardon for any crimes he may have committed in the White House, but the U.S. public was less forgiving. Polls consistently showed that two-thirds of all Americans thought Nixon should not have been pardoned and should...
...Government-paid expenses, his last TV interview cost CBS $500,000, and his last move from New York to New Jersey netted him a real-estate profit of more than $1.5 million. Though his wife Pat is in frail health after a second stroke last fall, Nixon is quite fit and chipper. Using a new Lanier word processor, he is tapping out his fifth post-White House book, No More Viet Nams. Though there was speculation that he might even play some role at this month's Republican Convention in Dallas, he declined...
...Everywhere I go," says John Dean, the former White House counsel who first publicly tied Nixon to the Watergate coverup, "I hear people say that maybe Nixon wasn't all that bad. The passage of time is one reason. People have softened their views considerably." Another reason is that Nixon has spent the past ten years tirelessly and skillfully campaigning for rehabilitation, for public acknowledgment of what he considers his deserved status as elder statesman. Says Dean: "Richard Nixon is running for ex-President." That he should campaign with some success hardly surprises veteran Nixon-watchers like John Sears...