Word: nixon
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...Scare reached national prominence with the accusations of Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist Party member, against Alger Hiss, a former top State Department official. A young Richard Nixon helps to keep the accusations in the news, culminating in the discovery of the "Pumpkin Papers," microfiche hidden in Chamber's pumpkin patch on his Maryland farm...
Long ago, the humorist Finley Peter Dunne ("Mr. Dooley") described being Vice President of the U.S. as "a sort of disgrace, like writing anonymous letters." Talking to oneself is cousin to that. It seems a Richard Nixon sort of thing to do. If Nixon did not actually talk to himself, he gave the impression that he did. For all his reputation for covertness, Nixon's real problem was his inability to conceal the darkly busy workings of his mind--the wheels turning, the eyes darting. You could almost hear him talking--a subliminal tape--even if the words were...
Everyone in the state department is trying to knife me in the back, except for Bill Bundy," Henry Kissinger grumbled after becoming Nixon's National Security Adviser. "He is still enough of a gentleman to knife me in the chest." So true, even now. In his new book, A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency (Hill and Wang; 647 pages; $35), the patrician Bundy is still inserting the knife in a gentle, gentlemanly way. His title comes from Sir Walter Scott's lines about the "tangled web we weave/ When first we practice to deceive...
...prime example in Bundy's march through the Nixon years is Indochina. From the secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969 to the secret assurances made to South Vietnam in 1973 that the U.S. would militarily enforce the Paris peace accords, Nixon and Kissinger showed that "deception goes hand in hand with bad policy," Bundy charges...
...during the Vietnam buildup, fails to wrestle with the sad irony that has dogged his career. It was forthright, honorable, well-bred folks--the best and the brightest, such as William Bundy and his brother McGeorge--who unintentionally got us into Vietnam. It was secretive, manipulative folks--such as Nixon and Kissinger...