Word: nixon
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...could slake your curiosity and amass opinions that would sustain hours of cocktail-party chatter. Celebrities stood in line. Comedians worked the fellatio film into their monologues. Johnny Carson: "This is kinda strange country, isn't it? Judges can see Deep Throat but they can't listen to those [Nixon] tapes." Bob Hope: "I went to see Deep Throat cause I'm fond of animal pictures. I thought it was about giraffes." Bob Hope made a Deep Throat joke on TV! It was like a papal blessing...
...became America's vast peacetime imperial consumerism--the automobile-and-suburb culture. The baby boom was in utero, or in diapers. George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were approaching the terrible twos. In LIFE, an ad for Mutual Life Insurance showed a drawing of a man just about Richard Nixon's age (35)--hair Brylcreemed straight back like Nixon's--bending over a child about 2 years old sleeping in a crib. The father in the ad says, "Goodnight, Mr. President ... and big dreams...
That summer, Nixon, a freshman member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, presided over the Alger Hiss case--a gaudy, sensational, two-year-long pageant of congressional hearings and court trials that would bring the cold war home, divide Americans and launch the young Nixon on a trajectory toward the White House...
...there had been no Hiss case, if Johnson had lost, if Kennedy had told the truth about his disease--history would have been different. The dramas turned on secrets. Nixon probed the hidden communist lives of Hiss and Whittaker Chambers. Kennedy locked the truth of his medical condition in a secret compartment. Johnson went to desperate lengths to prevent the disputed ballot box from being opened...
FROM THE BEST YEAR OF THEIR LIVES: KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND NIXON IN 1948: LEARNING THE SECRETS OF POWER, BY LANCE MORROW. COPYRIGHT ©2005 BY LANCE MORROW. TO BE PUBLISHED BY BASIC BOOKS...