Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girlfriend refused to abort. In the film Escape from L.A., the Chief Executive orders the assassination of his own daughter, while in the movie version of Primary Colors, John Travolta is slated to play the lyin', cheatin' and stealin' First Stud. By today's standards of popular culture, Richard Nixon was a saint. Jail to the Chief...
...examine private behavior, for example Dole's sudden divorce from his first wife or allegations about Clinton and Gennifer Flowers. In fact, under the current rule of confining scrutiny to "public character," only Clinton's is in play (Craig Livingstone, Whitewater pardons, Indonesian money), not Dole's (Nixon and Iran-contra pardons, Dwayne Andreas' money, former financial adviser David Owen's jail term...
...Patrick Moynihan suggested that Americans were "defining deviancy down," arguing that out-of-wedlock births, for example, had reached such epidemic proportions that Americans had lowered the threshold of acceptable moral behavior. When it comes to the highest office in the land, voters have defined the presidency down. Richard Nixon's crimes, John Kennedy's infidelities, Lyndon Johnson's ballot rigging, Ronald Reagan's and George Bush's involvement in Iran-contra--these disclosures have so eroded the moral capital of the highest job in the land that Americans expect less from the man who holds it. Dole...
Last Week the National Archives disgorged 28,000 documents from the Nixon era. Among them, TIME's Hugh Sidey found a Dec. 11, 1970, memo from Nixon suggesting a letter be written to Sidey and sent by "one of our people" posing as an admirer. Excerpts from the memo...
...left. I don't mean that I like him (frankly I would have to classify myself as a Lindsey [sic] Republican ...) I feel this so strongly, because I detest Vice President Agnew and am repelled by his attacks on the press. [But] if millions of people on television see Nixon as he is, and then read a column by a respected journalist like you which appears to be patently biasted [sic] against him, the very dangerous Agnew theme ... will gain much credance...