Word: nixonization
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...This widening polarization between the liberal and conservative Republicans has produced a critical period in the career of the man who has been the most prominent political go-between for the party’s two wings–Richard M. Nixon...
...heir-apparent to the Republican presidential nomination in 1960, Nixon has based his strength on the confidence placed in him by Eisenhower. Republican conservatives who even three years ago saw Nixon as their advocate in the White House are now forced to recognize his loyalty to the “modern Republican” line emanating from Pennsylvania Avenue...
...Obsessed as it is with lust and looking, the movie naturally wants its stars to look great. They're not kids any more: Parker and Davis are 43, Nixon 42 and Cattrall 51. (I know, Harrison Ford is 65, but you know that the camera and the audience are kinder to aging male stars than females.) But their characters are youngish, at least in their minds. Like a lot of us, they refuse to grow up or old; they need to stay fit and sexy, to sustain a satiny, early-20s robustness straight into senility. And whether Carrie...
...traced to a store where Dohrn worked. A grand jury wanted her testimony. She refused. Said she didn't believe in grand juries. Spent seven months in jail, and then the matter was dropped. Other charges against Ayers and Dohrn were dropped because the evidence was tainted by the Nixon Administration's illegal wiretaps. Ayers put it well: "Guilty as hell, and free as a bird. It's a great country...
...among opponents of the Vietnam War must seem ridiculously arcane to most people today. But perhaps you can imagine how infuriating it was to the organizers of the big marches on Washington--struggling to keep them peaceful--that there were people of the left effectively in cahoots with the Nixon Administration, determined to undermine all those efforts...