Word: nixonization
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...unachievable is the goal that it is usually the betrayals that make life interesting. (See John Dean and Nixon; David Stockman and Reagan; Judas and Jesus.) To be sure, there are people famous for loyalty, but they are often loyal to a fault, and a supposed virtue becomes pathetic, stupid, sometimes criminal. Rose Mary Woods entered history when she stood by her man's tape recorder. Hubert Humphrey probably lost the presidency when he stuck by Lyndon Johnson and his Vietnam policies. Then there was always Mrs. Odysseus...
...murk, sucked back into the violence and stupidity, the sleaze and failure, the narcissism and paranoia. It all comes back: riots at the gas pumps, terrorists on every flight, double-digit inflation, the last ignominious helicopters out of Saigon, the explosion of crime, the lousy cars from Detroit, Nixon's sweating upper lip as he says good-bye, the Club of Rome's gaudy apocalypse, the massive dumbing down of everything, and the perfect denouement - the Ayatollah and the hostage crisis...
Unlike Bill Bradley, I'm not prepared to call the man dishonest or morph him into Nixon. But at times, when Gore descends to the politics he disdains, he can't find the level beneath which he will not sink. At the 1996 convention he described how he sat at the deathbed of his younger sister in 1984 as she succumbed to the ravages of lung cancer, and how he vowed to fight tobacco until he drew "his last breath." Problem with that was he had made a 1988 speech to North Carolina farmers in which he extolled the joys...
DIED. RICHARD KLEINDIENST, 76, Nixon Attorney General who stepped down during Watergate and later pleaded guilty to a minor antitrust-scandal charge; in Prescott, Ariz...
...Nixon in private conversation is making a distinction between the kinds of metaphoric punishment he and his advisors would face at the conclusion of the investigation. In context, Nixon imagined something less than the complete loss of political life he was to suffer. Though my disappointment in Bill Clinton had settled in long before his famous comment that it all depends on what you mean by "is," the linguistic side-step was an added blow. Its technical precision was so obviously a device to hide the half-truth behind it that Clinton insulted our intelligence while protecting his own interests...