Word: nixon
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...seem to keep straight which is his first priority: tax cutting or deficit cutting. He recently described the economy as being "in the tank," although each new piece of economic data suggests otherwise. The lack of discipline reached the point where policy czar Donald Rumsfeld, a former Nixon aide, urged Reed to put a stronger handler--plus four personal secretaries--on the plane with Dole, just the way Nixon used to travel. Reed asked Margaret Tutwiler, a longtime top aide to former Secretary of State James Baker, to take over the fuselage team. "If Margaret Tutwiler is supposed...
...Washington Post, Gore explained that an "emotional numbness" after his sister's death "prevented me from integrating into all aspects of my life the implications of what that tragedy truly meant." This defense, best presented to Sally Jessy Raphael, introduces an interesting principle of nonaccountability that, say, Richard Nixon might have found useful in the midst of Watergate...
Politicians sensed TV's special emotional potency very early: in 1952 Richard Nixon saved his vice-presidential campaign against charges of financial wrongdoing by declaring that his wife wore "a respectable Republican cloth coat" and defiantly vowing to let his kids keep "a little cocker spaniel dog" named Checkers. Now political operatives watch the declining ratings for the traditional convention format and conclude, rationally enough, that the public's taste has changed, that it wants to "feel" the data rather than think about them. And, in the spirit of those Hollywood bigwigs they so roundly condemn, they are more than...
...Dole's hawkishness on Vietnam and crime issues and his unwavering loyalty to Nixon were enough to keep him in good standing with the right wing. When word got out in 1971 that Nixon was planning to make Dole chairman of the Republican National Committee, there were protests to the White House from nearly half the 43 Republicans in the Senate. Many were moderates who were afraid he would concentrate party assets on conservatives. They were wrong. One of the main lessons Dole learned from Nixon, who expanded social spending at home even as he escalated the war in Vietnam...
...demand that the two hold a debate on the spot. And at the 1992 convention, he urged Republicans not to be "shamed into silence" over the party's controversial 1988 Willie Horton ad. Said he: "This is one Republican who won't be cowed." The son of Richard Nixon's physician, he served 10 years in the House, forging ties with Gingrich, Senate majority leader Trent Lott and other conservatives. The 49-year-old is now openly running to succeed Governor Pete Wilson, mainly by showing off the state's declining crime rate since Lungren took office...