Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anchorman has ever aroused such passion. For conservatives who remember his days as President Nixon's nemesis, Rather is the very embodiment of what they perceive as the media's liberal bias. When Senator Jesse Helms, the right-wing Republican from North Carolina, launched a campaign in 1985 to take over CBS, he urged supporters with pointed glee to buy up CBS stock and "become Dan Rather's boss." Many TV news traditionalists are no fonder of Rather: he is too high-pitched, too image conscious, too well paid...
...success led Rather to stints in London, Saigon and Washington, where he served as chief White House correspondent during President Nixon's Watergate days. His combative reporting had already drawn the ire of Nixon supporters when, in March 1974, Rather rose to ask a question during an appearance by the President at a National Association of Broadcasters convention. The TV executives in the audience greeted him with a mixture of boos and cheers. "Are you running for something?" asked Nixon. "No sir, Mr. President, are you?" shot back Rather. The smart-alecky reply solidified Rather's position as Nixon...
...Nixon isn't ducking. Less reluctant support for Dole comes from a former occupant of the Oval Office. Richard Nixon, who favors Dole, has been quietly passing along advice and encouragement, mainly through intermediaries...
...presence, television sometimes exaggerated the scope of 1960s street demonstrations: a "mob" looks more threatening in closeup, we are shown, than when the camera pulls back to reveal the relatively small number of people involved. There is much fascinating footage of John F. Kennedy's and Richard Nixon's TV appearances, illustrating once again how friendly the medium was to one, cruel to the other. Nixon's "Checkers" speech, one of his rare TV triumphs, is included, of course -- but not just the familiar passage about Pat's "Republican cloth coat"; also Nixon's closing words, when he leans stiffly...
...Hampshire as well, but McGovern, trailing by only 9 percentage points, again triumphed in the expectations game. He rode that wave to the nomination -- and then to a resounding defeat as traditional Democratic voters, appalled that ultra-liberals had taken over the party, defected to Richard Nixon...