Word: nixonize
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WASHINGTON--Vice President Spiro T. Agnew yesterday said he would resign from the Nixon Administration if evidence surfaced which proves President Nixon played a role in the Watergate affair that goes "against my conscience...
...years old, and he's not going to be on the world stage much longer. Although Cuba is a small island, it has deeply affected the destiny of the U.S. He's a complex guy, and that's what interested me. I did a movie about Richard Nixon, and he was detested by many people. At the end of the day, whatever you think of the movie, Nixon comes across as more human. It's the same thing with Castro...
...Garfield. Hinckley and Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme--wannabe assassins of Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, respectively--sing a duet about unrequited love, in their cases for Jodie Foster and Charles Manson. One musical number ends in an electrocution, another in a hanging. Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon, talks about wanting to crash a 747 into the White House (a line from 1991 that hasn't been changed). How in-your-face is this show? Sondheim originally wanted to open it at the former Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. Says he, with a smile worthy of Sweeney Todd...
...three lively youngsters—Chanci Nixon, Terrell Reese and Kenneth Wiggins— are led by Ian Powell, an aspiring actor who studies at the Boston Arts Academy. Since League member Nicholas Barnes is MIA with his dance troupe Expressions, Ian has to pick up the slack and think of some moves for the kids to pull during their seven-second cameo...
Califano was so inside that he often seemed to be playing for both sides at once. During Watergate, as counsel to the Washington Post, Califano defended the paper against subpoenas for its reporters' notes in a lawsuit he himself had filed against Richard Nixon's re-election campaign on behalf of the Democratic National Committee...