Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...topic" covers. Editorial perceptions of the importance of the presidency have also changed. Herbert Hoover rated only four TIME covers, none of them during his one term as President. But in a 2½-year term, Gerald Ford appeared 19 times. The unchallenged winner of the cover sweepstakes: Richard Nixon, who appeared 53 times in a 23-year-span...
...petty grievances that grew bigger than they should have THE WHITE HOUSE because of Carter's fumbling. It worked that way for John Kennedy in 1963, when after the Cuban missile crisis he successfully completed the nuclear test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union. And even Richard Nixon, never really a man to engender affection, at least won broad respect when he came back from Peking and Moscow in 1972 with solid entries in his ledger...
...sudden, I realized that it was not just a manly hobby he had of possessing a rifle. It seemed like he was capable of killing someone with it." She recalled how she had locked him in the bathroom after he spoke of wanting to kill Richard Nixon that same month, and she remembered the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, when he told her not to bother cooking breakfast and then left early for the Texas School Book Depository...
...than we sometimes realize. He tried to get Lyndon Johnson the nomination in 1960. Failing that, he joined the Kennedy Administration as Secretary of the Navy. He was a good one. Then he went back to become Governor of Texas. In his first year came Dallas, and later Richard Nixon, the man who was mesmerized by Connally. He became Secretary of the Treasury, but Nixon tantalized him with the vision of being his Vice President and finally moving into the Republican mainstream and the presidency. That is the kind of wide-screen thinking John Connally liked. Too much...
...beginning of the end for Hoffa came in 1971, when President Nixon commuted his 13-year sentence in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary for jury tampering. Once free, Hoffa set out to regain control of the union from Frank Fitzsimmons, his hand-picked successor. But Fitzsimmons had come to enjoy the power and perks and had no intention of stepping down. The mobsters, who had been flourishing during Fitzsimmons' genially relaxed reign-joining various regional Teamster bosses in lucrative loan sharking, pension-fund frauds, sweetheart contracts, management-union kickback deals and other rackets-did not want Hoffa back either. They feared...