Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know that [former television evangelist] Jim Bakker's problems really started when Tammy Faye took her makeup off and realized she was really Jimmy Hoffa?" asked Sheryl Underwood. She also told a largely unprintable tale about Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and Gary Hart on a sinking cruise ship...
...memory serves, and it probably does, there were so many people around the White House willing to talk to anybody that Osborne and I never caught on. Being a man of the far 'burbs, I am mystified about the dark mutterings of Georgetown cocktail parties. But then Nixon and a lot of others often used Georgetown as a handle for the source of any evil that sprang...
...hours of bombast, insult, vituperation and disparagement aimed at Presidents, editors, academics, clergymen, members of Congress and little old ladies in tennis shoes. Osborne, the courtly Southerner, was heard on somber occasions to say "darn." Thus cleansed, we returned to duty -- and, as we now know, banishment. One of Nixon's gumshoes must have reported the proceedings...
...Nixon's paranoia about the press was world class, as the released memo shows. But not a one of the men who sat in the Oval Office in recent years was without such anger. John Kennedy thought TIME got too personal and ordered the entire Executive Branch not to speak to anyone from the magazine. That ban collapsed within eight hours: Attorney General Robert Kennedy took my call and talked my ear off. When he was President, Lyndon Johnson stalked me around a table roaring, "You're nothing but a whore for the Republican Party!" I'm sorry I could...
...fear that hysteria over the epidemic ignores its most likely victims. -- Reagan declares that the U. S. will keep the Persian Gulf open, but the details remain foggy. -- The Iran- contra hearings produce charges of profiteering among the patriots. -- Hugh Sidey discovers that he was "cut off" by Richard Nixon...