Word: nixon
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...prostitutes surfaced. Shortly afterward, so did his literary life. Random House advanced him $2.5 million to write a book about the Clinton White House, but Morris forgot to tell the President about the contract; thus in effect he was paid to eavesdrop on the Oval Office, not unlike Richard Nixon. He was rewarded with a breakfast at the New Yorker magazine, where journalists, ad salespeople and academicians convened to certify his good fortune, popularity, newsworthiness, bankability, celebrity, whatever...
Twenty-five years ago, former president Richard Nixon declared war on cancer by signing the National Cancer Act. Amidst the publicity for the anniversary of the Act last week, there appeared articles in Time, Scientific American and other journals all proclaiming setbacks as well as significant strides forward, most notably the decline in the overall cancer death rate. However, in an otherwise benign piece from November 25 ("Cancer: The Good News"), Time reported that "the bad news is that all those billions spent on research in basic science may have had little to do with [the decline in cancer deaths...
...Tennessean, whose face seems permanently fixed in a leaden-browed scowl. He got his first test before the lights and cameras during the Senate Watergate Committee hearings. As the panel's 30-year-old Republican counsel, Thompson put aside party loyalty to ask ex-Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield the question that revealed the existence of a taping system in the White House. Says Thompson's mentor, Howard Baker, who was the Watergate Committee's top Republican: "He's a man of deep conviction and great steadiness...
Thompson has been guarded of late in his comments about the Administration. But in an interview a few days before the election, he pronounced himself "mightily, mightily disgusted" with revelations of Democratic fund-raising irregularities, which he said made Nixon's tactic of shaking down corporate contributions seem "pretty paltry in comparison." For Clinton to try to deflect the controversy by recommitting himself to a bill--co-sponsored by Thompson--that would ban many of the President's own campaign practices "shows breathtaking audacity," the Senator added...
...journalism job to her Madison, Wisconsin, house and found a phone message from Oprah Winfrey. Mitchard, a recently widowed mother of five, ages 1 to 21, did what any sensible person would do: she erased the obvious prank. "I have a friend who calls and says he's Richard Nixon," she explains. Two days later came another taped call from Oprah, followed by another erasure. Then a third, a day or so later, with the sign-off "This really is Oprah Winfrey...