Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began not in 1960 but at the death of John Kennedy. Then came that brutal ransacking of the national spirit that did not even pause at the end of 1969 but continued through the disillusionments of Watergate. The '60s did not really let go until Richard Nixon resigned...
...standing with the public-and partly as a result, with his party-is much improved. When he stepped up to deliver his speech at Cook Convention Center in Memphis, he received a warm welcome from close to 4,000 Democrats. After a blistering attack on the Republicans and the Nixon Administration, Carter said: "We Democrats pledged to have a Government as good as the American people, and that is what we are doing." He added: "Ours is a party of practical dreamers." National Democratic Chairman John White added some effusive words of his own to the party's executive...
Ever since the glory days of J. Edgar Hoover, running the FBI has been the ruination of most directors' reputations. Hoover himself was demythologized after his death in 1972 by revelations of the racist, tyrannical and even lawless way in which he managed the bureau. Richard Nixon's appointee, ex-Navy Captain L. Patrick Gray, meekly let himself be used in the Watergate coverup. Clarence Kelley, the tough cop who had headed the Kansas City, Mo., police department, allowed himself to be hobbled by the Hoover clique of high-level bureaucrats at FBI headquarters. Last week former Federal...
...fields of Ploesti, Rumania, in 1943. He was director of operations for the Fifth Air Force during the Korean War, served as military assistant to the Secretary of Defense (1959-63), and in 1968 became responsible for the U.S. air war in Southeast Asia. In 1973 President Nixon made him chief of staff of the Air Force and one year later appointed him to his last post. A blunt man with a compulsion to speak his mind, Brown caused a storm of protest when in 1974 he criticized Jewish influence on U.S. foreign policy...
...lust and indolence to dissolve a man's will--although the magnetic pull of the games of one-upmanship is clear enough. That doesn't mean that Sellars hasn't worked these things out in his own head--his synopsis the program is full of cryptic notes like "A Nixon cameo," and "Enobarbus is Shakespeare," and, frankly, I don't have the vaguest idea what some of them mean. Maybe nothing and maybe everything...