Word: nixonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior year in front of a television." Christopher Lasch, a University of Rochester historian and author, adds that the only time he could remember so many people watching television was during the 1951 World Series. Updike says, "We were outraged and amused by this kind of buffoon. Nixon seemed that way too. From the safety of Harvard, it looked like an aberration in American politics--a subject in which we had little interest." McCarthy's threat to Harvard began to disappear as the Class of '54 was leaving. Concerns of the student body returned to subjects from which its collective...
When he was President, the idyllic 26-acre retreat on the Pacific bustled as the Western White House. After he fell from power, it provided an elegant refuge. But Richard Nixon is moving out of his San Clemente estate. Inflation has pushed the upkeep of the twelve-room, Spanish-style villa beyond his pocketbook, and last week he sold it to a group of Orange County businessmen for an undisclosed...
...Nixon purchased the San Clemente property in 1969 for $1.5 million, in partnership with longtime Friend Robert Abplanalp. In the following years, $6.1 million worth of improvements were made to the estate at taxpayer expense. Much of this was used to install the communications links and elaborate security facilities required by a President and to provide working and sleeping accommodations for the large staff that accompanied Nixon whenever he left Washington...
...Nixons never did reimburse the Government for these nonsecurity improvements. Whether they should, now that the estate is being sold, is under study by Washington. Peter Hickman, a spokesman for the General Services Administration, said that "if anything there is Government property, it remains Government property." By that, Hickman meant that the Government would remove what it could, including security equipment that might be used to protect Nixon at his new residence...
...gear would not have to be moved very far. Nixon's $80,000 federal pension, plus royalties from memoirs and television appearances, still enables him and Pat to live quite comfortably. They will soon move just one mile from San Clemente to Cypress Shores. A $650,000 five-bedroom home in this private compound has been acquired by Pal Charles ("Bebe") Rebozo, who plans to sell it soon to his old friends from the pleasant days in Florida and Washington...