Word: nixon
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...Became NBC's White House correspondent in 1971; covered the Watergate scandal, Nixon's resignation and the presidency of Gerald Ford, whom he once famously asked to respond to charges that he, Ford, was not smart enough to be leader of the free world...
...worry: the so-called Bradley effect. The thinking is that white voters might consciously or unconsciously conceal latent racial biases from pollsters, but be swayed by those biases in the booth. These days I’d like to think Obama is Kennedy to McCain’s Nixon, the handsome and clever candidate of the future. But there’s no guarantee he won’t be Jesse Jackson to McCain’s Michael Dukakis...
...professor says that one of his most formative experiences in Washington was watching Ford reach out to heal the wounds of Vietnam and the Nixon years while confronting the economic crisis of the mid-1970s...
When network executives began organizing the nation's first-ever televised presidential debate in 1960, a pre-debate debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy began almost immediately. The candidates haggled over format, location, even dressing rooms, but in the end, the medium trumped the message. Sick with the flu and hobbled by a knee injury, Nixon looked pale and sweaty--an image that stuck with viewers far longer than his words...
...Nixon's successors couldn't forget either; it took nearly two decades for another incumbent to agree to a televised debate. In 1976, Gerald Ford sparred with Jimmy Carter to prove himself to a doubtful nation. It didn't work. Since then, the debate over debates has raged on. In 1980, Carter refused to participate after John Anderson became the first third-party candidate to argue his way onstage; in 1992 voters made their voices heard in the first debate with a "town hall" format. Eight years later, George W. Bush and Al Gore argued even more bitterly over debate...