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...Parsons, a moderate Republican who campaigned for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1989 (and worked alongside him at his law firm), has served every Republican president since Richard M. Nixon in some way: under George W. Bush, he was a member of the presidential task force that studied the possibility of making major changes to Social Security. In 2008 he joined the Obama transition team's Economic Advisory Board before being named Citigroup chairman...
...which is part biography, part psychiatry--is more fun. The problem is that very often a President's past--and even his campaign rhetoric--is not prologue. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson pledged to keep the nation out of war; in 1940, Franklin Roosevelt promised to do the same. Richard Nixon spent his career as a die-hard anticommunist, but in the White House, he opened relations with China and ushered in dtente with the U.S.S.R. George W. Bush once said America shouldn't tell the world what...
...Freedom in 1963, and the farmhouse depicted in his most famous single work, “Christina’s World,” is the only building to make the National Register of Historic Places for being the subject of a painting. No one less infamous than Richard Nixon, toasting Wyeth at the White House, said that his paintings “captured the heart of America...
...library, write a memoir, and earn some bank on that mythical "speaking circuit" that has proved so remunerative for Presidents past. His immediate predecessors include two astoundingly productive ex-presidents (Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton), some lackadaisical ones (Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush), a disgraced lion in winter (Richard Nixon) and a man who, in hindsight, was likely in the emerging stages of a devastating sickness (Ronald Reagan). But America has had many presidents over the centuries (43, last time we counted) who generally fall into several, non-exclusive categories...
...Medicare card for his support of the legislation, also succeeded in getting a bill passed in 1958 that provided former presidents with a pension, staff, and office space. Prior to that, ex-presidents received no such retirement benefits (Truman was fairly broke when he left office). And finally, Richard Nixon mediated a baseball umpire's strike in 1985. We don't know what to make of that either...