Word: nixon
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Massachusetts, say the workers in the South Dakotan's campaign, is McGovern country. The Bay State was the only state in the Union to cast its electoral votes for McGovern in the 1972 presidential election. Although the District of Columbia also threw its support to the Democrat, Richard M. Nixon won that election in one of the biggest landslides in American political history...
...Nixon's demise two years later rubbed some of the tarnish from McGovern's defeat, and McGovern's one-man-band campaign--he has little money and is the only candidate who refuses Secret Service protection--has buffed the sentimental glare to a shine...
Darman's ascendancy is all the more intriguing for his Eastern Establishment background. The oldest child of a New England industrialist, Darman earned his B. A. and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard and entered Government during the Nixon years under the tutelage of his fellow Brahmin, Elliot Richardson. Darman's various jobs in five Cabinet departments included a stint at Commerce, where he impressed Baker, then an Assistant Secretary, with his ability to analyze vast tangles of information. Baker chose Darman in 1981 as his assistant, says Press Spokesman Larry Speakes, because...
...deeper reaches, Fo's manic comedy is a splendid treatise on the mentality and mechanics of official lying. The play would have had hilarious pertinence if it had played Washington during the last months of the Nixon Administration. But Fo is examining something more sinister than Watergate ever was. Fo is thinking of a dark, sanctioned thuggery-the kind that kills-and of an endless manipulation of the record, the facts of the past dissolving and reforming themselves into new shapes, like that cloud that Hamlet and Polonius discussed. Certain psychological and moral circumstances, Fo knows, bring about...
Hart like John F. Kennedy '40, represents the diametric opposite of his Republican opponent. Kennedy triumphed over a craggy Richard M. Nixon, and Hart can triumph over a 73-year-old Reagan. Furthermore, Harts, distance from the party establishment--most of which fell into the Mondale trap--guarantees that he will not be doomed to follow the same worn political path. Mondale spent a lifetime carefully climbing up through the party, making the right friends, allying himself with the party establishment and reviving the old labor alliance. He is a player, not leader...