Word: nixonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burns has found all the Presidents to be courteous. Truman asked for an aide once but instructed Burns not to summon him to the phone if the fellow and his wife were having dinner. The morning that Tricia Nixon was to get married, the rain started and stopped several times, and plans for the Rose Garden ceremony teetered back and forth. Finally, Nixon called and politely asked, Operator, do you know if this wedding is going on today...
...leading universities, the figure was only 1%. Still, a growing number of female stars are today rising over the campuses. One of them, Marina Whitman, 43, economics professor at the University of Pittsburgh, broke new ground by becoming the first female member of the three-person CEA in the Nixon Administration. A specialist in global economics, Whitman says wryly of her CEA appointment: "There was a kind of debutante quality about it." One of the vexing problems that she encountered in Washington was that women and men very often were separated after dinner. Eventually, she stopped accepting dinner invitations...
...University, and remembers that she was often the only woman in her classes. She soon found that the best opportunity for advancement was in Government; and, since the late '60s, she has moved from one federal agency to another. Married to John Sawhill, onetime energy czar under President Nixon and now president of her alma mater, N.Y.U., she is the mother...
...Saul L. Chafin, chief of University police, announces that the Harvard police force will have new uniforms starting April 1. Chafin says he has arranged to rent the uniforms used by Richard Nixon's guards for a brief period in 1973. "We picked them up for a song," Chafin says, "and I never liked baby blue anyway." The Richard Nixon Library, which has been keeping the neonapoleonic uniforms in mothballs, refuses to disclose the price...
...Former President Richard M. Nixon arrives on campus at the invitation of the Harvard Republican Club, for a speech in Sanders Theater. Saul L. Chafin, commandant of University police, reports that his appropriately-dressed crew made no special preparations for the Nixon visit. Afterward Nixon attends a special picnic lunch in Radcliffe Quad. "We would have had him at the Faculty Club, but we've got a lot of expensive silverware in there." President Horner notes...