Word: nixonization
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Moakley’s death this spring after a protracted battle with leukemia kicked off the first open race in the Ninth Congressional District since the Nixon administration and has drawn national attention to the nine contenders—seven Democrats and two Republicans—seeking to represent the increasingly diverse district, a mixture of suburban communities and the working-class neighborhood of South Boston popularly known as “Southie...
...Richard Nixon suffered a long post-presidential purgatory. After leaving Washington in disgrace, he brooded forever in eerie, sun-smitten isolation in San Clemente...
...mutual self-interest that brought Washington and Beijing together back in 1972. The Nixon administration engaged with China not because it believed this would make China a more open society or economy, but because it would outflank their mutual enemy in Moscow. Later, as the crypto-capitalist Deng Xiaoping replaced Mao Zedong and began opening China's markets to the West, the relationship morphed from an alliance of convenience against a mutual foe into a partnership based on trade and investment...
...Nixon campaign manager and Attorney General John Mitchell to Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein...
...part of that permanent Washington is mere slick K Street venality - unelected money catering a hog's buffet. The best of the tenured Washingtonians, represented by Kay Graham at the top of her game, joined good human instincts with intelligent principle, and a certain thoughtful unfoolability about people (Richard Nixon, for example...