Word: nixon
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Freud would have been intrigued by Blagojevich's frequent mentions of Richard Nixon in his many TV appearances this week. Nixon came up again in the state-senate soliloquy, which drew heavily on Nixon's signature blend of bathos, defiance, self-pity and implausibility. The same thing that tripped up Nixon felled Blagojevich: tapes, yes - but also the fact that the SOB-with-a-heart-of-gold act can work only if people are willing to believe that you might have a heart...
Trump, Donald • gratuitous scolding of Nixon's daughters is merely the latest example of the unending insufferability...
...question, they loves 'em their Nazi exposés (The Reader), their civil rights martyrs (Milk), their Nixon (Frost/Nixon), who to the Academy voters is like Bush 43 rewritten by Shakespeare. All three films were finalists for Best Picture. And Doubt, set in a Catholic school in 1964, cadged slots for all four of the actors who didn't play kids or really old nuns. Note to the Academy: What have you nice folks got against really old nuns? (See Time's Top 10 Best Movie Performances...
...Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan--each in a different way--responded by downsizing containment. Nixon opened up to China, which essentially meant the U.S. was no longer trying to contain the Soviets alone. Carter told Americans not to panic every time leftists overran some banana republic. Even Reagan, although he funded anticommunist guerrillas, refused to send U.S. troops to battle communist rebels and regimes in Central America...
...myself, you know, the big straw hat and Hawaiian shirt, sitting on some beach," he said. "Particularly since I quit drinking." So what options beckon a President who is relatively young, healthy and unloved by more of his fellow citizens upon leaving office than any other modern President, including Nixon? (See pictures of George W. Bush...