Word: nixon
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...REPULSIVE. But that didn't matter. So was Nixon, and he was an American president...
...confirmed, Franklin will bring a power-packed resume to the position. The Harvard M.B.A. served as a headhunter in the Nixon Administration, a vice chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission from 1973 to '79, and is a director of seven corporations, among them Aetna, Dow Chemical and Westinghouse. A savvy Republican fund raiser, Franklin co-chaired a dinner last fall that gathered $1.2 million for Bush's 1992 campaign. Her appointment is also a campaign tactic to boost Bush's support among women, 54% of the voters...
...through Califano. "He has Minnesota running- water disease," L.B.J. roared. "I've never known anyone from Minnesota that could keep their mouth shut. It's just something in the water out there." Johnson peevishly curtailed his political appointees from helping Humphrey in the campaign of 1968; Humphrey lost to Nixon by half a percentage point...
That was years ago, but from then on I would periodically receive catalogs of historic documents. A group shot of Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan, autographed by each: $4,000. A nice letter from George Washington: $35,000. An autographed photo of Sitting Bull (signed "Sitting Bull...
Some public figures have a story magic, and some do not. Richard Nixon possesses an indefinable, discomfited dark gleam that somehow fascinates. And John Kennedy, despite everything, still has the bright glamour that works best of all. Works, that is, except when the subject is his assassination. That may be a matter still too sacred, too raw and unassimilated. The long American passivity about the death in Dallas may be a sort of hypnosis -- or a grief that hardened into a will not to know. Do not let daylight in upon magic...