Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What happened to those glorious days of yesteryear, when California produced Red-baiting Richard Nixon, tap-dancing George Murphy, and the diminutive, tam- o'-shanter-wearing S.I. Hayakawa, who said of the Panama Canal, "We should keep it; we stole it fair and square"? Or, for that matter, the Gipper? On the liberal side, there was Jerry Brown, promoter of Zen politics and Spaceship Earth. Bill Schneider, political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, blames Governor Moonbeam for starting the trend away from trendy. "Brown singlehandedly is responsible for the election of at least two of the most boring politicians...
...unusual for the press to take an interest in presidential families. Jackie O. and the Kennedy kids, LBJ's daughters, the Nixon wedding and Billy Carter all were played prominently in the national news. Their lives, romances and struggles are of national interest...
Anyone who doubts that sheer gall knows no bounds should consider the case of former Vice President Spiro Agnew. In 1973 Agnew was forced to resign as Richard Nixon's Veep amid charges that while Governor of Maryland he accepted $147,500 in illegal kickbacks from highway contractors. Nine years later, after settling down in tony Rancho Mirage, Calif., Agnew paid the state of Maryland $248,735 in restitution for the alleged bribes, plus interest and fines. But Agnew, who became an international business consultant after leaving the Government, deducted the entire amount, plus legal fees and interest, from...
...very, very frightening time," Skotnes says of the the spring of 1970 when there was a student strike at Berkeley. "It was a direct result of Nixon's invading Cambodia and the Kent State [conflict]," where four students were shot and killed by the National Guard during an anti-war demonstration...
...addition to Bernstein, other participants in last night's discussion included James St. Clair, Nixon's former special counsel; James S. Doyle, former special assistant to the Watergate independent prosecutors; and Murrow Professor of the Press and Public Policy Marvin Kalb...