Word: nixonization
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...bright young (comparative) unknown: George Bush the elder selected Dan Quayle; Eisenhower chose the young Dick Nixon...
...defending American League batting champ who was hitting .387 as of Saturday. They have a new hero in center fielder Carl Everett, picked up in the off-season and now hitting .329, with 22 homers and 63 runs batted in. They have budding stars in right fielder Trot Nixon and catcher Jason Varitek and a dominating ninth-inning pitcher in Derek Lowe, who has saved 16 games...
Nader and Buchanan - each a throwback to '60s configurations, the one a countercultural enviro-saint and the other an old Nixon gunslinger, the two now, oddly, working the same side of the economic street - would bring authenticity, a depth and passion of thought, to what will otherwise be dimensionless debates, turning, as in the past, upon such fatuities as "I paid for this microphone!" and "Where's the beef...
...southwest, but it was Assad who was dubbed the Sphinx. Assad remained a riddle. Austere, he neither smoked nor drank. He would summon aides at all hours to discuss an issue, then closet himself for days before abruptly announcing a decision. He never came to America; from Nixon to Clinton, they either traveled the road to Damascus or met him in neutral Geneva. They worried about elections and deadlines; a dictator, he never worried about the clock ticking. He was legendary for his marathon negotiating sessions and infuriating intransigence. But it was his actions that so befuddled American leaders. Syria...
...appreciation of comic nonsense (though sometimes he would issue a cold, dry laugh at something that seemed absolutely sensible to me), and by some unspoken sense of sadness. We circumvented the subject of politics whenever possible. He was appalled by my liberalism; I was enraged by his approval of Nixon and the Vietnam...