Word: nixonization
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...qualifiers surrounding it would not. Cynics have argued that he has known this all along and that the endorsement headlines were the results for which he hoped. Some Democrats are quick to point out that Greenspan began his career in national politics by working on former president Richard M. Nixon's campaign in 1968. After hiding his true political feelings during eight years of the Clinton Administration, the story goes, he can now return to his conservative roots...
...part, though, and since his debut as the petulant young Richard the Lion-Hearted in The Lion in Winter, he has turned out nearly 100 finely tuned performances for screens both big and small, including the egotistical artist of Surviving Picasso; the tragically flawed Commander in Chief of Nixon; the withdrawn butler in The Remains...
...Richard Nixon, coming into office in 1969, demonstrated a mildly hilarious phenomenon: the way in which a formerly scruffy and reviled politician may pass through the inaugural looking glass and become transformed. Tricky Dick, the familiar old five o'clock shadow of American politics, suddenly was credited with rebirth as the new New Nixon, a metamorphosis from which he emerged almost regal in manner and body English and even tailoring. Suddenly, his suits seemed to fit better, more presidentially...
...presidential transformations can be reversed. The presidential Nixon of 1969 ended as the bitter, thuggish ghost of San Clemente. Lyndon Johnson, messiah of the Great Society, finished his life as the King Lear of the Hill Country. And Bill Clinton, the shoeshine and the smile of the '90s, confirms everyone's worst suspicions as he departs...
Bush needn't worry that a pardon would move impeachment to the second paragraph of Clinton's bio. On the contrary, it would seal the Nixon comparison with Clinton the only other President to be pardoned. And it would make Bush seem more statesmanlike. Even among those who don't think Clinton has suffered enough, there are many who think there's been enough suffering to go around. In varying forms, every President ends up with something he needs to seek forgiveness for--and from the whole country, not just from those who voted for him. Those who have given...