Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole had only one move to make in 1995--a shift to the right side of the road. For the close circle around Dole, the question was not whether to flank Phil Gramm, but how soon and by how much. Dole knew the truth of Nixon's dictum: run hard to starboard in the primaries; tack back to the center for the general. The trick, Dole understood, was not getting out so far that he couldn't make it back to safety...
...anti-Semitism infuriated liberals. (And they were not alone.) But it was Buchanan's protectionism and his attacks on greedy executives that really turned off the business wing of his party. For decades the G.O.P. flirted with the populist attack on elites, a venerable Democratic tactic that Richard Nixon borrowed for his own purposes. Now that Buchanan was giving that message a serious class-based edge, however, G.O.P. leaders flinched and ran. "The Republican Party can't do more than mouth populism," says G.O.P. strategist Kevin Phillips...
...presidential superstardom, his personality has overshadowed recent politics to a degree far surpassing any of his post-Kennedy predecessors'. With his palpable need to be loved, Clinton is surely the most psychologically compelling President we have had since the dark one-two punch of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Plus, he offers us the warmth and charisma of Ronald Reagan, the vigor, shall we say, of Kennedy and, somewhere in the mix, a dollop of Jimmy Carter's sanctimoniousness. You could even say Bill Clinton is a stylistic summation of the late-20th century presidency in the way his wife...
...holidays get near, Hollywood gets the glums. For Christmas, it gives moviegoers a hair shirt: severe, serious films angled more for Oscar consideration than for Yuletide joy giving. Remember Nixon, Georgia, Othello in '95? This season, with few Academy Award contenders emerging in the first 10 months, studios will come down with a bad case of good intentions...
...network airs his last, Laughing with the Presidents, a tribute to the comic's friendship with every Chief Executive from F.D.R. to Bill Clinton. Hope has called the White House his "favorite bed-and-breakfast." During no other hour of television will you find appearances by both Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tony Danza...