Word: nixon
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...white, who marched with Dr. King, who now say they really don't agree with the direction in which we're going." But the only civil rights leader he names is Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality. Before his metamorphosis to Republican conservatism during the Nixon era, Innis' main accomplishment was transforming core into a black nationalist cult so extreme it tried to rally support for Idi Amin. I could barely stop giggling...
...some reason he evokes less warmth than much stiffer predecessors like Carter and Bush and more publicly offensive men like Johnson and even Nixon. There are still plenty of people around who would fall on their sword for Nixon. Who besides James Carville would do that for Bill...
...also the ideal urban setting for the great stone wall. One reason the movie of All the President's Men was so scary was that it captured the crumminess behind the wall, not unlike the Watergate burglary itself. Think of that splendid moment when a TV screen showed Nixon being sworn in for his, hmm, second term while the Woodstein typewriter clacked at his door...
...Only then did Kay Graham, at age 46, come out of the shadow of the men in her life and gradually transform herself into a near legendary figure: the "iron lady" who built the Post into one of the nation's great papers, stood up to the Nixon Administration during Watergate and hobnobbed with the rich and powerful while running one of the nation's premier media companies (owner of newspapers and TV stations, as well as Newsweek magazine). In Personal History (Knopf; 642 pages; $29.95), her disarmingly candid and immensely readable autobiography, Graham not only chronicles that personal transformation...
...gave the crucial go-ahead to publish the Pentagon Papers, after a federal judge had halted publication of them in the New York Times. And, of course, she stood tall during the paper's groundbreaking Watergate coverage, backing her reporters in the face of enormous pressure from the Nixon Administration, which included politically motivated challenges to the Post's TV licenses. Though often credited with courage in this confrontation, she writes, "the truth is that I never felt there was much choice...Once I found myself in the deepest water in the middle of the current, there was no going...