Word: nixonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover story. Angelo spent 20 years dogging U.S. politicians as a correspondent in Washington before moving to London last year, and has since trailed Thatcher from Newcastle to Gravesend. "Thatcher is not like any candidate I've ever seen," says Angelo. "She is Barry Goldwater played by Pat Nixon-a tough, uncompromising politician in a meticulously ladylike package...
...Rosalynn whispered that to him one night, they should take away the pillow. If he found the notion in that special library in his little study, they ought to have a book burning. The single six-year term is an idea that appeals to troubled politicians-Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Connally. Most of them never muttered it until they got into some difficulty. Carter may be in political peril, but he need not abandon the Constitution...
...archetypical tycoon, when, actually, even more grotesque immorality founded thousands of American fortunes in these same years--Horatio Alger and Benjamin Franklin notwithstanding. Halberstam goes on (and on) to maintain that the Chandlers "in effect invented" Southern California, just like their political hired-gun/reporter Kyle Palmer invented Richard Nixon in the late 1940s, just like the Times's protective coverage of Nixon made him the paranoid schizo he turned...
Halberstam's media-determinism (he had to justify that $300,000 advance somehow) leads him into some egregious mistakes in reporting and analysis. It's crucial to Halberstam's argument, for instance, that when the Los Angeles Times finally gave Nixon "fair" coverage in the 1962 California governor's race, asked tough questions, allowed his opponent equal space. Nixon would break down and reveal his paranoia. So Halberstam completely distorts the famous "you won't have Nixon to kick around any more" press conference after Nixon lost that race. Quoting only one Nixon sentence, Halberstam claims that Nixon completely lost...
Garry Wills's Nixon Agonistes, however, gives the opposite interpretation and backs it up with several pages of the press conference transcripts. Wills points out that Nixon lashed out and backed off, lashed out and backed off, on the edge but never breaking, always hedging his bets. Wills notes that when Larry O'Brien in 1968 screened the film of the press conference, hoping to find a segment to use in Humphrey commercials, O'Brien came up with nothing, so thoroughly had Nixon covered...