Word: nixon
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...reporter apparently got waylaid by agents of an old one. After contacting two of the magazine's supposed representatives, she was informed that the students intended to publish on a daily basis. Further inquiries elicited the information that the new group was funded by none other than Richard Nixon and the Committee to Re-elect the President...
Subsequent investigation revealed that the two sources were members of the Harvard Lampoon, a Bow St. social club renowned for its valiant and unceasing efforts at humor. Nixon could not be reached for comment...
...Safire impulsively set up the "kitchen debate" between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon at the American Exhibition in Moscow. Safire's goal was not to boost Nixon but to plug the developer of the "all-American home" in which the famed face-off took place...
Ever the loyalist, Safire has never recanted his membership in the Nixon alumni association. The two men talk at length about once a year, largely about pro football and foreign policy. Safire reveled in an October column contrasting Nixon's unpaid and unofficial mission to China to Ronald Reagan's $2 million jetcapade to Japan. The former speechwriter is not oblivious to the vices of Watergate; he just refuses to allow them to drown what he sees as Nixon's virtues. Before she died, Safire's mother asked him, "How could you work in the Watergate White House...
What Safire carried away from four years in the White House is the self- confidence to intuit how men behave along the corridors of power. Safire may exaggerate the degree to which all administrations cleave to the Nixon norm, but the ability to project his imagination into the White House animates both his columns and his fiction. In 1987 Safire published his second novel, Freedom, a 1,152-page, sprawling and ungainly but nonetheless fascinating reconstruction of the early years of the Lincoln Administration...