Word: nixon
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...Presidential campaign, the question has haunted the election process. John F. Kennedy '40 very effectively used the fledgling medium, and a a result he has often been called the first "TV President." This claim has some validity; JFK's campaign received a real boost from the famous Nixon Kennedy debates, among the first such affairs ever broadcast to a national audience. Currently, it is hard to forget Ronald Reagan's description as the "Great Communicator" when he appears in his element--behind a podium delivering a prepared speech...
DIED. Jessamyn West, 81, gentle-spirited novelist and short-story writer, best known for her first collection of stories, The Friendly Persuasion, about a Quaker family on the Indiana frontier during the Civil War; in Napa, Calif. Born into a Quaker family (Richard Nixon is her distant cousin), West set much of her fiction in her native Indiana, although she lived most of her life in California. "I am by all I know a Californian," she once said, "and by all I imagine a Hoosier...
They start off in 1974 And do updates for every media whore: A Nixon comeback, to Park Avenue, For a Dick who should have done sepuku A million bucks from David Frost he took. To tell the nation he is not a crook. Of all the comebacks, though, this is the worst: The "contented mom" that was Patty Hearst. Then I grab the mag. I almost toss it. More annoying drip from Farrah Faweett...
...John Kennedy was lucky. His New Idea rhetoric carried him past older and poorer rivals for the Democratic nomination, and then just barely past Vice-President Richard Nixon for the Presidency. Twenty-four years later, though, Gary Hart won't be so lucky if he depends upon New Idea rhetoric alone to win the Democratic nomination, and then the Presidency. In the rosiest of scenarios, Hart might overwhelm Walter F. Mondale simply by convincing voters that the former Vice President is a figure from the discredited past. He would then go on to win the nomination, and, course uncorrected, lose...
...Ronald Reagan--who will defend a record of his own making--is not Vice-President Richard Nixon. And Gary Hart--who has not yet demonstrated any great personal charisma--is not Senator John Kennedy. More important, Ronald Reagan offers a clear--albeit atavistic--vision of what he would like America to be Reagan is dead set on dismantling government--or at least the kind Americans have known for the past forty years. His American future is a blurry dream of what this country never was in the nineteenth century...