Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What would Nixon be like, what would he act like? Almost everyone wondered. Nixon was hesitant about being there at all. Sunday morning a Nixon aide telephoned Baker's office and said that if it was awkward, Nixon would not go to the minority leader's office for coffee. He would instead go straight to the Capitol entrance at the last second so that he would not encounter anyone important. Forget it, Nixon's aide was told. Nixon was welcome...
Rockefeller, Kissinger and their wives arrived first. Then came Jerry and Betty Ford. Nixon was next, with his daughter Tricia. For a fleeting second there was tension. Nixon looked unsure, older than the group remembered him. He did not seem to be the man of impeccable tailoring they recalled. His trousers were even a shade too short. Then Ford and Kissinger went up to Nixon to shake hands. The unease vanished, talk began...
...chance and circumstance. He looked across the room and spoke of the strange tides that had swept them all along, and now had brought them together again. Indeed, the sequence of power, the flow of events, fascinated everyone. Mrs. Johnson was there because of John Kennedy's assassination, Nixon because Lyndon Johnson had been President, Ford because of Nixon, Rockefeller because of Ford. And maybe Carter was in the room because Ford had not kept Rockefeller as his vice-presidential candidate. Of course, they were all there to honor a man who, many felt, should have been President before...
...Carter, who seems forever to be clarifying or climbing down from remarks, may seem an exception to the dominance of politicians. But he was not drawn into most of his gaffes, indiscretions or overstatements by being caught off guard by a reporter's question. In his distaste for Nixon's rehearsed and calculatingly misleading utterances, Carter chooses to wing it, as if spontaneity proves the honesty of his intentions...
EXPECTING. Julie Nixon Eisenhower, 28, who is writing a biography of her mother, Pat Nixon; and David Eisenhower, 29, who is finishing a book on his grandfather, Dwight D. Eisenhower; their first child; this summer. The baby will be the first grandchild for former President Nixon...