Word: nixon
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...triumph of the Hollywood crowd in the White House leads Brooks to admit that "compared with the people who now set the tone for the Clinton administration, let's face it, those Ivy League meritocrats look like the Founding Fathers." Poor Richard Nixon--the godfather of conservative resentment of the Eastern Establishment--must be spinning in his grave...
...claimed that the uprising was not about race or hate but rather about states' rights and the forgotten middle class. That was partly true; it was also a Vietnam-era class war against draft-dodging, policymaking elites. Wallace pioneered the fed-up anti-Washington line that other politicians, from Nixon to Carter to Reagan, took up and carried into the respectable mainstream. Wallace in a sense expanded American democracy rightward...
...FLOP SWEAT (1960) Nixon turns pale and pasty debating J.F.K...
...brash backbencher on the House Judiciary Committee in the early 1970s, Michigan Representative John Conyers was enough of an irritant to the Nixon White House to earn 13th place on the Administration's original enemies list. "Coming on fast. Emerging as a leading black anti-Nixon spokesman," presidential counsel John Dean noted next to Conyers' name. In May 1972, Conyers introduced a resolution on the House floor demanding that Nixon be removed from office for his conduct of the Vietnam War. The measure went nowhere, but Conyers kept at it for the next two years, and when the Judiciary Committee...
Democrats need Conyers to find courage of a different kind this time around. The Judiciary Committee's only veteran of the Nixon wars, the 69-year-old is the committee's ranking Democrat and will spearhead the party's defense against the Republican campaign for impeachment. The natty, unflaggingly liberal Conyers meets one requirement for a bulwark: he openly loathes Kenneth Starr; recently he called the prosecutor one of "the enemies of the nation." Conyers' potential value to the White House extends further. As dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, he could help marshal critical black support for Clinton...