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...model of probity, a loyal friend to colleagues in distress, a father confessor to the Hollywood community. He chaired the National Society of This, the American Academy of That. He was laden with official honors: Lyndon Johnson gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom; Richard Nixon put him on his Enemies List. Peck received perhaps his sweetest laurel last week when the reclusive Lee, on hearing of his death, said, "Gregory Peck was a beautiful man. Atticus Finch gave him the opportunity to play himself...
Moynihan served as assistant labor secretary during the administration of President John F. Kennedy ’40, and was an urban affairs adviser to President Richard M. Nixon. He was Nixon’s ambassador to India in 1973-1975 and served as chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations...
Arriving at the top of the third inning, Topjian scores some oversized hot dogs and Legal Sea Food chowder, and settles down in Section 42 of Fenway’s right field bleachers. Soon after the FM entourage arrives, Boston right fielder Trot Nixon makes a backpedaling, leaping catch at the wall to rob the Indians of extra bases. After the rest of the Indians are retired, Sox superstar shortstop Nomar Garciaparra leads off the bottom of the inning with a homer to left-center. “Wow,” Topjian notes. “The first...
...landslide but also a transformational election--an election that creates a new Republican majority, just as the 1936 election created an enduring Democratic majority for Franklin D. Roosevelt. There is a problem with this notion, though. The last transformational election was not 1936 but 1968--the year that Richard Nixon created a new political reality by exploiting Southern white resentment of the civil rights movement (and of Vietnam War protesters). The solid Democratic South became the solid Republican South, a truly momentous event in American political history, and the pendulum has been swinging right ever since. The laws of politics...
From Franklin Roosevelt on, U.S. Presidents are either mysterious or unmysterious. Among the uncomplicated, unmysterious characters: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush. The others--Roosevelt himself, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton (the jury is still out on George W. Bush)--confront a historian with odd opacities of character: neuroses, compulsions, contradictions or (in the cases of Roosevelt and Reagan) an impenetrable geniality. Reagan's biographer Edmund Morris concluded that the man's apparent depthlessness was itself an enigma, a kind of blank, like the whiteness of the whale...