Word: nixon
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...deus ex machina, perpetually in motion, sweeping in to lift up spirits befuddled by modernity. When Presidents need to pray, it is Graham whom they call; he ministered to Dwight Eisenhower in the White House, spent the night with the Bushes on the eve of the Gulf War. Richard Nixon offered him the ambassadorship to Israel at a meeting with Golda Meir. "I said the Mideast would blow up if I went over there," Graham recalls. "Golda then reached under the table and squeezed my hand. She was greatly relieved." When Billy arrived for a crusade in Little Rock, Arkansas...
...last June, he visited John Connally in a Texas hospital, escaped to a quiet hotel in southern France to find the time and space to work on his memoirs, immediately returned to Texas to preach at Connally's funeral, flew back to France, then to California to conduct Pat Nixon's funeral, then returned to France once again, too tired to get much work done. "I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down," he says, "whether you want to slow down or not." Mayo Clinic doctors tell him he can stand and preach for, at most, five more...
...Voter approval for a Presidential candidate, [Nixon speechwriter and German mentor Ray] Price argued, is not about reality but is a 'product of the particular chemistry between the voter and the image of the candidate...It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression...
Every costume told a story. David Gergen disguised himself as Richard Nixon, his hands rising in the famous V-for-victory gesture. The much feared adviser and friend Susan Thomases was a Pilgrim. Affable communications director Mark Gearan became a gorilla, while mild-mannered personnel chief Bruce Lindsey wore a nun's habit. Pirate George Stephanopoulos huddled with media whiz Mandy Grunwald, who looked for all the world like a health security card. White House decorator Kaki Hockersmith--Scarlett O'Hara--had her dress made from fabric matching the curtains in the Lincoln Bedroom...
...However imprecise his budgetary math, Ross Perot can be credited with getting people to think seriously about deficit cutting. Even more earnest thinking is now coming from the Concord Coalition, a year-old group headed by three men safely out of the Election Day line of fire: Nixon-era Commerce Secretary Pete Peterson and two ex-Senators, Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, whose presidential campaign peaked on the eat-your-spinach message that everyone must sacrifice to bring the deficit down. Claiming 100,000 followers in 50 states, they aim to make it easier...