Word: nixonize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, another former Republican President, Richard Nixon, urged Bush to stop his staff from contrasting his hands-on energy with Reagan's well-known sloth and detachment. Bush, whose politeness is legendary, was furious that anyone on his payroll would blurt such disrespectful truths. One senior Bushman who had also worked for Reagan felt obliged to write to Nancy Reagan (with a copy to President Bush) denying he had bad-mouthed her husband...
...applause began with Richard Nixon's famous visit to the People's Republic, it has been intensified by the growing Chinese presence on campuses, in business and the arts. When Kingston published her first account, The Woman Warrior (1976), she was a soloist. Today she is part of a choir of writers concerned with the Chinese experience. On Broadway, David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly explores the boundaries of power, sex and race. In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, published last month, Chinese mothers offer their children a series of poignant confessionals. China's repressive Cultural Revolution...
...focused and thoughtful new exhibit, "American Television: From the Fair to the Family, 1939-89," running until next April, the museum shies away from a nostalgic, you-must-remember- this approach. Imagine a survey of TV history with no mention of Milton Berle, Edward R. Murrow or the Kennedy-Nixon debates...
...familiar. A public figure under fire for wrongdoing rises to defend himself, proclaiming his honesty, years of service and adherence to the rules. Last Thursday it was Jim Wright's turn before the TV cameras. The House Speaker's passionate statement was reminiscent of other notable political apologias: Richard Nixon's I-am-not-a-crook, Ed Meese's They-did-not-indict-me and, most recently, John Tower's I-am-a-man-of-some- discipline. Like the others, Wright's performance only emphasized how much trouble...
With that statement, Wright raised the stakes of this in-House scandal for the Democrats assembled around him. It is said that Dwight Eisenhower snapped a pencil in half when his embattled vice-presidential nominee, the younger Richard Nixon, came to the part of his Checkers speech about Pat and the cloth coat. Eisenhower knew then that Nixon was not going to go away but would fight to the death to hold on to his nomination. No one heard any No. 2 lead pencils breaking when Wright said, "There are some things worth fighting for." But it is far from...