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...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...
...CHIEF JUSTICE WHO CAN REACH ACROSS IDEOLOGICAL DIVIDES AND BUILD CONSENSUS? I think that's very important, but Chief Justices have come from remarkably strange places. Nobody would have predicted that Earl Warren would have been able to do that on Brown v. Board of Education. When President Nixon tapped Warren Burger to be Chief Justice, he was a relatively unknown circuit judge and did very, very well...
...Thompson had shot himself, obituaries and retrospectives poured out, online and in print. Some were shitty (The Village Voice). Some were fantastic (Tom Wolfe for the Wall Street Journal). All spoke to the creative force of his demiurgic persona, to his self-characterization, and to his embodiment of Nixon-era counter-culture. But all paled in comparison to the full-throttled elegy he would have scribed...
...Shakespeare of the sound-byte, the sucker punch, the hyperbolic epithet. His 1994 Rolling Stone obituary for Richard Nixon, whom he loathed, was titled “He Was a Crook”; his catchphrase was “Fear and Loathing.” With language, he was a fetishist, a libertine, drunk on whiskey and the utter extravagance of his writing...
...granted, was a pivotal figure in TIME's development. He moved the magazine away from partisanship and strengthened the independence of its voice in national and world affairs. He directed its unflinching coverage of Watergate and wrote an editorial, the first in TIME's history, that called for Richard Nixon's resignation. He was deeply inquisitive about the tumultuous changes of his time--social, economic, political and cultural--and supremely alert to the nuances of the zeitgeist. To name one instance of his intuition: it was Henry who ordered up TIME's famous 1966 cover asking the question...