Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hollow scandals of little consequence. Why has the press devoted more resources to these than, say, at the height of the health care debate, to health care? Whitewater is the phoniest of phonies. It has been protracted twice as long as Watergate. [From] the beginning of Watergate to [Nixon's] resignation was half the time of Whitewater so far, in which...nothing has been proved. In fact, according to the most comprehensive investigations of the Resolution Trust Corporation, headed by a prominent Republican, which had all of the relevant documents, the president and First Lady were exonerated...
...prostitute; suspects who included a malevolently elegant businessman, a sleazy psychiatrist and a drug-addicted movie star; and, in the starring role, impassioned defense attorney Teddy Hoffman, played by Daniel Benzali as a man of such unwavering rectitude that he made lawyer jokes seem as gauche as postmortem Nixon bashing. And yet with all that going for it, Steven Bochco's Murder One finished last season as the 74th-ranked show in network prime time and seemed fated for dismissal...
...aura. George Bush was as poor at managing "the vision thing" as Dole. In this presidential parlor game, George Washington was a hedgehog, John Adams a fox. Abraham Lincoln was a hedgehog, Harry Truman a fox. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a fox who grew into a supreme hedgehog. Richard Nixon lost as a fox in 1960 but won as a hedgehog in 1968. National crises both demand and create hedgehogs, and hedgehogs go down in history as the great Presidents. And in this era of slogans and 30-sec. commercials, hedgehogs have the clear advantage as candidates. In the parlance...
...formats range from traditional work (Popeye for President, 1956) to mixes of live action and animation. Ford includes his own nicely rancid vaudeville about Richard Nixon to the tune of No Substitute, the hilariously solemn Nixon-Lodge campaign song for 1960. Disney artists contributed to a crude, perky 1952 TV commercial for Eisenhower ("I like Ike, you like Ike, everybody likes Ike/ Let Ad-l-ai go the other way,/ We'll take Ike to Washington...
...that Agnew's attacks on the media, war resisters and others who disagreed with him "were discredited by their illogic when they were first made" and that his resignation proved them "to be the rankest hypocrisy as well." Examining Agnew's sordid political career should discredit myths regarding the Nixon legacy and should remind hubris-crazed hypocrites that the media and free speech are not so easily trampled underfoot. The end of any human life is always a tragedy. But we must not forget the kind of life Agnew lived and the damage he caused to others...