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...DIED. FREDERICK LARUE, 75, former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, who was rumored to be "Deep Throat," the Washington Post's Watergate source (he denied this); in Biloxi in the U.S. state of Mississippi. LaRue, a successful political financier who served in Nixon's Administration without pay, was present at a 1972 meeting at Nixon's Florida vacation home where the Watergate break-in was planned. His role in the cover-up earned him 4 1/2 months in federal prison for obstruction of justice...
Betty Ford's cancer diagnosis in 1974 prompted a TIME cover story on POLITICAL WIVES, which featured Pat Nixon and Joan Kennedy, along with the brand-new First Lady...
Some women, to be sure, would be unhappy no matter what their husbands' occupations and would turn in their despair to drink, to drugs, to affairs. But probably no other career makes such relentless demands on wives and families as politics. Witness Pat Nixon in virtual exile at San Clemente. "We are worried about Pat," an associate of the Nixons confides. "She has not been in touch with any of her close friends. It's not like her"... [The political wife] becomes public property, an extension of the public man, subject to unending scrutiny, judgments, accolades and criticisms...
...detailed account of the McGovern-Nixon race, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72, Hunter S. Thompson wrote that the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami was “shaping up very fast these days as one of the most brutal and degrading animal acts of our time...
...what? It’s not as if the DNC manufactured the national fixation on the happy, miserable decade between Eisenhower and Nixon; for many of our college-age generation, it’s unavoidable...