Word: nixonization
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...witty best seller on making a house a home, has made it acceptable for a generation of women and men to come out of the (uncluttered) closet. It is O.K. to find joy in a full refrigerator, an empty hamper and clean, well-lighted rooms. Just as it took Nixon to go to China, it took a lawyer (she graduated from Harvard) and philosopher (she has a Ph.D.) to legitimize housework. Mendelson once believed that only chumps did not order in, contract out or let it go as they pursued being buff, polished and ready to master the universe. Then...
Colin Powell is not the first Secretary of State to come into the job with high expectations. HENRY KISSINGER, named Richard Nixon's man at State in 1973, had a portfolio of diplomatic successes and "the unmistakable aura of a true celebrity...
...between us and the Democrats," says Mike Mathis, Teamsters director of government affairs. "But they can't take us for granted." Such pragmatism will help Hoffa's re-election bid this fall. The Teamsters are more diverse than other unions, and G.O.P. ties will appeal to members who backed Nixon, Reagan and the President's father. Tacking Republican also distances Hoffa from his predecessor, now on trial for perjury connected to an alleged scheme to use money tied to the Democratic Party...
...Helms, who began his career as a newspaperman and television commentator, was a Democrat until 1970. He switched parties to run for a Senate seat in 1972, taking office at the start of Richard Nixon?s fateful second term...
...fact, the wall lasted only 28 years. And one man who saw its frailty was Richard Nixon, the man defeated in 1960 by Kennedy. In a strange, short interview with me some 20 years after the wall was built, Nixon described the Soviet Union as a "basket case" which would come apart soon and take the wall down with it. His was a lonely voice but, and in this case, a true...