Word: nixonize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to tell the truth because if we lie and get caught we break the bottom-line deal," Reese says. "Mr. Nixon didn't lose the presidency because of what he did, its because he lied and got caught. So we have to tell the truth. We're not obligated to tell all of it. It's an antagonistic contest between two candidates. So we can tell the truth selectively... Targeting is the elimination of prospects. If you target me out, you leave your best prospect for the expenditure of your resources; and if you create the best messge...
Jerry Ford was almost an afterthought in the Watergate trauma that expelled Richard Nixon. During the hours preceding his presidency, Ford was counseled in the shadows by White House staff, Cabinet officers and Nixon himself. Ford simply moved across West Executive Avenue to the Oval Office and worried about the tone of his first message to the country...
Sutton went to Washington with Kennedy and stayed there with him until Kennedy moved to the Senate in 1952, meeting Richard Nixon and Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the process. After returning to Massachusetts, he went to work for state Treasurer Robert Crane until Sutton's retirement...
Historians agree that John F. Kennedy "won" his 1960 debate with Richard Nixon not on substantive issues, but because Nixon showed up on national television looking pale and nervous. The 1976 debate between Ford and Carter is remembered, not for its arguments over the state of the economy or the proper U.S. role in world affairs, but rather for Ford's strange assertion that Poland was not under Soviet domination. A mere reassuring phrase from candidate Reagan, "there you go again," was enough to stave off an issue-oriented Carter attack...
...former President, near the end of his term, had become paranoid. Former White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan gave us Government- by-astrology; former Reagan Spokesman Larry Speakes told of making up quotes for the President. In addition, recent news stories have reminded the nation of Richard Nixon's ugly displays of anti-Semitism. Now comes Landslide: The Unmaking of the President: 1984-1988 by Reporters Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus. They reveal that many White House aides believed Ronald Reagan was so depressed and inattentive after cancer surgery and the Iran-contra affair last year that the possibility...