Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton's fortunes fell, Dole reviewed his position one more time. He sought advice from his old mentor Richard Nixon the year before Nixon died. Nixon gave Dole hope of turning his age into an advantage. "Your critics," Nixon wrote, "will try to focus on the age issue. However, after four years of Clinton and his baby boomers, age may not prove to be a liability ... Most important, you have not lost any of your mental sharpness. Looking back over the years, I vividly recall that De Gaulle, Adenauer, Yoshida and Zhou Enlai were all in top form mentally...
...when he ran for President in 1840, and judging from what passed for press reports at the time, no one seemed to care. Democrats tried to frighten voters after Eisenhower fell ill in 1955. "They ran ads saying that if you elected Eisenhower, you were going to get Nixon because [Ike] was going to die," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania...
Dole doesn't smoke and rarely drinks. He eats carefully while in town and follows Nixon's admonition never to eat before a speech. On the road he indulges in Kentucky Fried Chicken, and his advancemen have been known to peel off from his motorcades in search of local Dairy Queens on his behalf. "Gotta eat a little something," he'll say. "Gotta keep the energy...
...struggle under way over who will succeed Deng Xiaoping. "To appear weak before the U.S. puts potential successors in a vulnerable position," says Robert Ross, a visiting professor at the College of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. Testifying before Congress last week, Henry Kissinger, the advance man for President Nixon's opening to China, said, "Sino-American relations are in free fall." For a good indication of how far they will fall, watch what happens to Harry...
...despite the onslaught. Alarmed by Bill Clinton's fluke victory in 1992, Republicans redoubled their organizing efforts. Richly rewarded in 1994, conservatives were elated after breaking the Demcorats' lock on the House of Representatives. And having finally broken into the citadel, the Republicans are now resorting to the old Nixon playbook to ensure that they never have to leave again...