Word: nixon
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...title of Lance Morrow’s new book is remarkably fascinating: “The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948.” Each of these three men indelibly shaped American politics, and now Morrow ties their lives together in one book. Think Superman and Batman together in the Justice League, or Allen Iverson and LeBron James as teammates on the Olympic team...
...surface.” What relevance does “real fresco” have to this book? After seven pages on Brumidi, Morrow unconvincingly concludes: “Politics and government by the same process offered the wet fresh surface to which Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon brought versions of America that originated in different places, had different colorations, different stories to tell, different ideals and heroes...
DIED. PETER RODINO, 95, unassuming, gravel-voiced Democratic Congressman from New Jersey who, with a steady hand, led the compelling House impeachment investigation of President Richard Nixon; in West Orange, N.J. Born to Italian immigrants in working-class Newark, N.J. Rodino was an aspiring novelist before he turned to law school. Elected in 1948, he served quietly for 25 years before becoming a household name in 1973 during the Watergate investigation. "If fate had been looking for one of the powerhouses of Congress," he said at the time, "it wouldn't have picked...
...gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife," she deadpanned. "I mean, if those women on that show think they're desperate, they oughta be with George." If the performance turns out to be Laura's most memorable, it was also a reminder that the least outspoken First Lady since Pat Nixon nonetheless plays a crucial role in her husband's presidency, reminding his critics that someone can, if nothing else, bring him down to size. Plus, she's the ultimate character witness. A Republican lobbyist remarked after her performance, "He must not be all bad if she likes...
...plays his favorite sport, tennis, in which he is known on occasion to switch his racquet from his right hand to his left in the middle of a point to avoid using his weaker backhand. So it was that during the 1990s the onetime adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan joined the deficit hawks in Bill Clinton's Administration to support raising taxes, only to bless, however obliquely, President Bush's 2001 cuts in the wake of projected surpluses...