Word: nixon
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...McCarthy. But the savor of March '68 didn't last long. Robert Kennedy defeated him in the June 5 California primary, then was shot dead that night. Hubert Humphrey, favorite of the party bosses, was nominated at a Chicago convention that was chaos inside, carnage on the streets. Richard Nixon won the general election, and the war raged another seven years...
Hugh Sidey loved ceremony but hated pretension. He had excellent perspective, but also had an eye for the telling detail: Lyndon Johnson's hydra-headed shower, George H.W. Bush's penchant for e-mailing racy jokes to friends, Richard Nixon's love of classical music. He came to Washington in 1957 to cover the second Administration of Dwight Eisenhower for LIFE, switched to TIME to cover J.F.K. and reported on every President since then. He went to Dallas with J.F.K., to China with Nixon, to Moscow's Red Square with Ronald Reagan. Yet he returned as often as he could...
...Richard Nixon: Trying to Grasp the Real Nixon...
...American Presidency for TIME for close to half a century, died Monday night in Paris of a heart attack. He was 78. Born and raised in Iowa, Sidey came to understand the presidents of the last 48 years as well as anyone. He was with Kennedy in Dallas and Nixon in China. He was the iconic insider, staying close to many presidents even after they left the White House, becoming great friends with Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush...
...main reporter, Sandy Smith, and Managing Editor Henry Grunwald, TIME did a sterling job covering Watergate. It was the only publication (according to Woodward and Bernstein's book, All the President's Men) that could keep up with Washington Post on the story. Henry, of course, wrote the famous "Nixon should resign" editorial, and Sandy was the grizzled mafialogist and investigative reporter from the Chicago Tribune and LIFE Magazine who had the sources in the FBI and elsewhere and kept breaking stories. But Hugh was the one who kept pushing the story with the editors in New York, fighting...