Word: nixon
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Vengeance was novels away when Stephen scraped through the University of Maine at Orono, moonlighting as a dishwasher, Little League coach and gas- station attendant. He majored in English, minored in dramatics, marched for peace, voted Republican for the last time in 1968 ("I believed Nixon when he said he'd get us out of Viet Nam"), and met his future wife, a woman whose unlikely name, Tabitha Spruce, seems to have been plucked from a Stephen King coven. She remembers him as an imposing figure, a "campus institution" who wrote a weekly column called "King's Garbage Truck...
...year-old lawyer's varied career includes Vietnam, service as a social aide to President Nixon, and the Massachusetts chairmanship of Citizens for America, a national conservative political action committee...
...expedite the case, a staffer believes the Senate could "be here at Christmas" if all Claiborne's requests are granted. Even so, it may not be another 50 years before the Senate goes through the ordeal again. At least two other federal judges, Alcee Hastings of Florida and Walter Nixon of Mississippi, could follow Claiborne into the impeachment labyrinth...
...poking fun at the President. Chase claims he has two injured vertebrae from re-enacting Ford's pratfalls. "Retribution," said Chase, "has been had." In spite of his professional injuries, Chase's tongue is still sharp. "Thank you for having me here," he told the man who pardoned Richard Nixon. "I'm kind of embarrassed (pause), and I hope you'll pardon...
Gerald Warren, who was deputy press secretary during a particularly rancorous era, told the seminar, "It's an understatement to say there was very little humor in the Nixon White House, and much of what there was was inadvertent." For example: Nixon's comments to reporters at the Great Wall of China ("It's truly a great wall"), to a motorcycle policeman who had just broken his arm and leg in an accident at the head of a presidential motorcade ("How do you like your job?"), to French dignitaries gathered for the & funeral of Charles de Gaulle...