Word: nixon
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...people," he says, "though they seem to be issues with reporters." Has he tried to remake himself after a rigid and unhappy childhood? "What a lot of baloney!" he exclaimed in an interview with TIME last week. "Everybody's going to be psychoanalyzed. Jimmy Carter was, Richard Nixon was, George McGovern was. It's just part of the deal. But my childhood was as happy as one can be in not plush economic circumstances." He changed his signature, he explained, "to make it easier to read." (To make his Senate letterhead signature legible, Hart dropped his middle name...
When British Talk Show Host David Frost recorded five interview programs with former President Richard Nixon in 1977, CBS News refused to bid for the broadcast rights, preferring to avoid disputes over "checkbook journalism." Last week, however, CBS News acknowledged that it has bought, for a reported $500,000, the rights to 38 hours of taped conversation between Nixon and a former White House aide, Frank Gannon, who helped Nixon write his memoirs. The footage will be edited into three 30-minute segments that will air next month, two on 60 Minutes and one on a forthcoming magazine show, American...
...Guide, which screened some of the interviews, reports in this week's issue that Nixon (whose share of the show's worldwide sales reportedly could reach $1 million) discussed "subjects as varied as feeding his baby daughter Tricia at 2 a.m. and dealings with international leaders." About Watergate, the former President said, "It . . . was wrong, stupidly handled." He added, "I should have destroyed the tapes." The Nixon footage was turned down by NBC News President Reuven Frank, who judged it to be "not sufficiently new," and by ABC News, which apparently objected to the fact that Nixon...
...miss it very much. But I represent too much of a threat to too many other people for me to be able to go to church." That does not explain why Reagan has shown no interest in inviting clergymen to conduct services in the White House, as Richard Nixon did, or at Camp David, which was Jimmy Carter's practice...
...succeeding generations have blurred Collier's generous vision, we have nevertheless held fast to his dream of tribal integrity. Richard Nixon endorsed it in 1970, and Congress reaffirmed it five years later with passage of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. Even Ronald Reagan has pledged "to encourage and strengthen tribal government" and "to deal with Indian tribes on a government-to-government basis...