Word: nixon
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Hayden thinks Kennedy would have won the Democratic nomination in 1968 and then gone on to defeat Richard Nixon in November and served two terms in the White House, leaving office in January 1977. Richard Goodwin worked as an adviser and speechwriter for both John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. He remembers talking to Bobby on the night he was killed. "He believed," recalls Goodwin, "that he probably wouldn't get the nomination. He was sure that Johnson would do anything to stop him." Goodwin shared Kennedy's pessimism at the time, but now, 20 years later, says the nomination could...
What if Bobby Kennedy had lived and been elected President? It can be argued that Sirhan Sirhan's nihilistic gesture changed American history more profoundly than any other event since the death of Franklin Roosevelt. Without Sirhan, would there have been no Nixon, no Watergate, and possibly therefore no Jimmy Carter, and possibly therefore no Ronald Reagan? The long historical tumble of the past 20 years may have begun in that hotel serving pantry. Of course, that sort of hypothesis is merely a fantastic antiworld. Such speculations are idle and infinite...
...NIXON: THE EDUCATION OF A POLITICIAN 1913-1962 by Stephen E. Ambrose. The first of a two-volume biography of the most complex and controversial politician of our time examines the former President's beginnings in California...
JOHN ADAMS: THE CHAIRMAN DANCES AND OTHER WORKS (Elektra/Nonesuch). Glenn Miller, minimalism and Mao: a lively orchestral gloss on the opera Nixon in China...
...from Walter Cronkite to Elvis Presley. In between, he keeps making these curious analogies between the position of the G.I. in Viet Nam and Dorothy in the Land of Oz. And, no, one had not observed until Adrian pointed it out just how much the voice of Richard M. Nixon resembles that...