Word: nixonize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RICHARD Nixon has appeared everywhere the past few days. The April 10 issue of The New York Times sported a full page ad, with a huge photo of the ex-President, announcing Nixon's appearance on the NBC News program Meet the Press for the first time in 20 years. Last week, Nixon spoke at the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors to give his predictions on the Presidential race. On Sunday, The New York Times Review of Books contained a review of Nixon's new book on the status of the superpowers...
...last time this happened was in 1972 when Sargent Shriver ran on George McGovern's Democratic ticket against President Richard Nixon. Shriver had never held elected office before...
...heads his own ethics institute in Los Angeles, notes an important distinction. A pardon, he believes, should never be issued by a person involved in the case, as Reagan is in the Iran-contra scandal. No President ever seems to have done so. "Even when Ford pardoned Nixon, there was no question of Ford's being involved in Watergate," says Josephson. "Reagan, on the other hand, could pardon everyone, theoretically including himself. I can't possibly see how that could be proper...
...memoirs to be published in May, Hiss, 83, who served 44 months in prison on a perjury conviction as a result of the microfilm evidence, excoriates Chambers as a "psychopath . . . the perfect pawn" of an opportunistic young Congressman then serving on the House Un-American Activities Committee: Richard Nixon...
Several members of Congress also pop up in the guessing game. Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney is a low-key conservative who has experience as an adviser to Richard Nixon and chief of staff for Gerald Ford. The two Indiana Senators, Richard Luger and Dan Quayle, have been strong conservative leaders, and either could help in the Midwest battleground...