Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consider the scoop a breach and that we would continue to cover the court aggressively, good night. What Burger didn't know was that our source was one of his fellow Justices, who was angry with Burger for having held the decision from the previous fall to spare Richard Nixon political embarrassment...
...When the President of the U.S. makes a sudden, unexplained move during what is supposed to be a weekend of rest, it sends a ripple of consternation across the land. That is what happened when President Nixon, relaxing at his Camp David, Md., retreat, snatched up his briefcase, dashed to his helicopter and zipped back to the White House. To make matters murkier, White House spokesmen offered the lamest excuses. Speculation mounted. Quite simply, the President was escaping from the pollen hanging heavy over Camp David. Indeed, one wonders at the effort to cover up the President's allergy." --June...
TIME owes it to its readers to name the anonymous Governor whom I allegedly told that "Dick Nixon is a loser." It will be especially interesting, since I have never said it or thought it. I am sorry that at a time when Republican leaders are working hard for party unity, TIME would stoop to quoting nameless sources in an effort to destroy that unity. RONALD REAGAN Governor Sacramento, Calif...
...anomic world; the playwright gave Walsh his first big break when he cast him in the 1984 Broadway production of Glengarry Glen Ross. Walsh did not start acting until he was 30, yet he brought his skill to nearly 60 film roles, including a turn as John Ehrlichman in Nixon and recently as a redneck kidnapper in the 1997 thriller Breakdown...
...Richard Nixon and the nation have passed a tragic point of no return. It now seems likely that the President will have to give up his office: he has irredeemably lost his moral authority, the confidence of most of the country, and therefore his ability to govern effectively...