Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They claim to be the New Right, but several of the themes-and faces-are old. In 1972 Richard Nixon buried his New Left opponent with the help of some of the same issues that are current today. Many of the leaders are familiar: Ronald Reagan, 67, Barry Goldwater, 68, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, 55. As Viguerie puts it, they are "spokesmen, not leaders. They can bring audiences to their feet, but then they leave the hall, and everything stops." Viguerie believes that conservatives skipped an entire generation of leadership...
...Bert Lance ever needs another loan, he might consider asking William Safire. The Nixon-Agnew speechwriter-turned-columnist surely has the money, having made about $1 million from his bestselling Washington novel, Full Disclosure (TIME, July 4). He also has a personal admiration for Lance. "A likable man," says Safire, "and one of the very few in the Carter Administration to return my phone calls...
...native New Yorker, Safire dropped out of Syracuse University to become a researcher for Columnist Tex McCrary, joined McCrary's public relations firm, and later struck out on his own. As press agent for a "typical American house" at a Moscow exhibition in 1959, he lured Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev into their now famous "kitchen debate...
Safire joined the 1968 Nixon presidential campaign as a speechwriter, a job he retained when Nixon won. Nine months after the Watergate breakin, Safire left the White House and took a columnist's job at the New York Times. He had a previous offer from the Washington Post Co., but Publisher Arthur Sulzberger met him at a dinner in New York and made a higher bid-reportedly $50,000. That sizable salary, and his early columns defending Nixon against Watergate charges, did not endear Safire to many Times colleagues. But readers found him a lively contrast to the paper...
Safire still chats with Nixon on the phone, wears his Nixon tie clasp around the office, and corresponds with Convicts John Mitchell and John Ehrlichman. "Mitchell said he's working in the prison library cracking down on overdue books," reports Safire. "Ehrlichman and I have the same agent." He avoids ex-friend Henry Kissinger, who, Safire says, ordered his White House phone tapped...