Word: nixon
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...house has been in need of money in general, and it's good to have it back and get that straightened up and out of the way," said Samuel C. Nixon...
Buchanan's reputation as an unblushing hard-liner on just about everything dates back to his days as a Nixon White House aide. "He's the reverse of most politicians, who are intensely political with trimmings of ideology,'' says Nixon's White House special consultant Leonard Garment. "He's intensely ideological with a trimming of politics." When Buchanan returned to the White House in 1985 as director of communications for Ronald Reagan, he was the same, only more so. "I hadn't encountered anyone like Pat since I had to deal with the White Citizens' Councils in my days...
Buchanan on race? In 1970 Richard Nixon was weighing the wisdom of enforcing court orders that required the desegregation of Southern public schools, by busing if necessary. A lot of people didn't like the idea. Buchanan was one. As he told Garment, he was working on a speech for Vice President Spiro Agnew that would "tear the scab off the issue of race in this country." In a White House memo, Buchanan argued that "the ship of integration is going down; it is not our ship; it belongs to national liberalism; and we ought not to be aboard...
...Angela, the younger daughter in a family of seven boys and two girls, gets her nickname from the mispronunciation of her older brothers: she was the "bay-bay." Within the family, Bay was more the rebel than Pat. After getting her master's degree in mathematics and working on Nixon's re-election committee, she was so disillusioned by Watergate that she upped and moved to Australia. When she converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and married a Mormon lawyer in 1982, her devoutly Roman Catholic father refused to attend the wedding...
...former Shelley Scarney who has logged more time on campaigns than either her husband or her sister-in-law. After graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in political science, the only child of a Detroit ophthalmologist became a secretary to Vice President Nixon and traveled with his unsuccessful 1960 presidential campaign. One of her many jobs: at airports, she would call Washington, take down the day's news clippings in shorthand, then type them up on the plane on a portable manual typewriter. She also traveled with Nixon's victorious 1968 campaign. Buchanan and his future wife...