Word: nixonize
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Richard M. Nixon, the disgraced, personality-challenged 37th President of the United States, was not famous for introspection. But in 1993 he reflected: "I will be known historically for two things. Watergate and the opening to China...
...American policy held that "China" was the small island called Taiwan, and that Washington regarded the mainland as a hostile, totalitarian hell. The idea that a staunchly conservative Republican President could normalize relations with the closed communist state was so revolutionary at the time that the phrase "like Nixon in China" has now become a popular analogy for hard-liners acting against their longstanding convictions...
...previous work, as you may know, was as a disembodied head in Futurama. I played opposite Richard Nixon. They're making a movie version where I will reprise my role. There are a number of people clustered in a certain age group who are quite taken with the fact that I once uttered the immortal line "I have ridden the mighty moon worm...
...father and her reporter's notebooks from 30 years in Washington. Ours was a personal story that I thought needed to be told but when I read all the history and got a peek at the inner workings of Washington and the period of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations, the story became even more compelling and worth telling - even if she hadn't been...
...Your mother had a lot of access to Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon. Was that a good or bad thing...