Word: nixon
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...fought for revival in this week's Illinois primary. Dole cut half his campaign staff and canceled television ads in Illinois while scrambling to broadcast a half-hour final appeal on Saturday night. A frequent adviser who ranks as politics' reigning expert on defeat and redemption, Richard Nixon, wired encouragement: MAKE ILLINOIS YOUR FINEST HOUR...
...make a game of gravitas: who has it, who does not. Gorbachev, surely. Pope John Paul II. Jimmy Carter did not. Nor did Gerald Ford. Richard Nixon displayed a bizarre and complex gravitas that destroyed itself in sinister trivialities. Does Ronald Reagan have gravitas? In some ways, Reagan seems a perfect expression of the anti-gravitas America of the late '80s, a place that can seem weightless and evanescent, as forgetful as a television screen. Gravitas, a deep moral seriousness, is not necessarily the virtue for an electronic age. And yet Reagan possesses a gravitas of authenticity. In any case...
...change in public attitudes over the years can be traced in three popular films--the early Front Page, which sentimentally celebrated cynical and amoral Chicago newspapering; All the President's Men, which ennobled the journalism that brought down Nixon; and the more recent Absence of Malice, which examined the way an unfeeling reporter damages personal lives. Both the latter movies, unlike Front Page, argue that the press does matter; the first for the good it can do, the second for the harm. What caused the change in attitude? In his valedictory speech last year as president of the American Society...
Meese could be relying on President Nixon's advice to aides who were ordered to testify about Watergate: "You just say, 'I don't remember, I can't recall.' " It did not always work...
...whole course of the conversation did Kennedy raise the question of the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba," Gromyko asserts. "Consequently, I did not have to answer whether or not there were such weapons in Cuba." Gromyko's favorite President is Roosevelt, but he also expresses admiration for Richard Nixon's studied pragmatism. Gromyko has little to say about Reagan beyond a reference to his "courtesy" at a 1984 meeting, but finds Nancy "energetic" and "confident...