Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find its relentlessly liberal bent tough to swallow. It's true that Gingrich was immortalized as a ticking bomb icon, Dan Quayle as a feather and Phil Gramm as a producer of low-budget porn flicks (wait, that last one was fact, not cartoon fiction). Republican presidents, in particular Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush, have been subject to cuttingly funny mockery...
...have a tough time admitting they were wrong," he says. "The same problem exists with the American Heart Association." He is also disgusted by most other diets, which he considers either poor copies of his own or plain bad science. He has an enemies list that would impress Richard Nixon...
...plaques with Nixon's signature...
When I was a kid, I never knew what my parents--or anyone else's--did for a living. As far as I could tell, all grownups had mysterious jobs that involved drinking lots of coffee and arguing about Richard Nixon. My parents didn't seem to have career aspirations that reached beyond the end of our driveway, and if they had job-related stress, they kept it (like sex) private. Now families are expected to be much more intimate, and while that has happily resulted in a lot of hugs, "I love yous" and full attendance at soccer games...
...after being wooed by a combination of Nancy Reagan and Cabernet leftover from the Nixon administration, Edmund Morris agreed to become Ronald Reagan's authorized biographer. What Morris found, or, rather, didn't find, left him in such a state of despair that he went underground for years--quitting drink, staying home weekends and leaving his talents as a virtuoso pianist untapped. Morris spent his time reading the president's private diaries, watching old films and tracking down everyone from Reagan's high school flames to Colin Powell, only to discover that the President had a total lack of interest...