Word: nixonize
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...plays a board game called Camelot with a roommate whose mother is best friends from convent school with Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. In the 1970s, Schlesinger lives in a house on Manhattan's East 64th Street. He looks out his bedroom window one day and sees his neighbor Richard M. Nixon "prowling restlessly around his garden." In a little while a party begins at the Schlesinger house. A guest - invited by a friend of his wife's - comes to the door, a man whom Schlesinger has never met: Alger Hiss. They have a polite chat - even though Schlesinger considers Hiss...
...race this close since 1960. PBS showed a fine documentary last night about the Kennedy-Nixon campaign. The implication of it was that there were giants on the earth in those days...
...drift toward a dispiriting conclusion. Watching the documentary, I was struck by the intelligence in Kennedy's and Nixon's eyes - very different forms of intelligence, of course, but two different expressions of the real thing. Kennedy and Nixon both had terrible defects (more than anyone knew at the time). Kennedy's beautiful facade concealed a weirdly reckless sex life and potentially fatal disease (Addison's). Nixon had his own shadows (less well disguised...
...living Ashcroft is if Wilson announces in advance whom he intends to appoint should Ashcroft lose. The problem for Wilson, and the Democrats, is that the choices are few. The state's leading member of Congress, House minority leader Richard Gephardt, doesn't want the job. Attorney General Jay Nixon and former Senator Thomas Eagleton probably can't beat Ashcroft. The only Democrat with a shot at doing that would be Carnahan's widow Jean. But since she also lost a son, Roger, in the crash (an aide to the Governor, Chris Sifford, also died), friends say it will...
...example. The entire administration of Abraham Lincoln, one of the two or three greatest American presidents, revolved around war. The meaning of another great president, Franklin Roosevelt, centered first upon great depression, and then upon world war. The war in Vietnam destroyed the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon (his Watergate schemes having been cooked up to counter the antiwar movement.) The Cold War dominated American politics from Truman to Reagan...