Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Graduate, the year's top-grossing film, Dustin Hoffman embodied the anxiety of a generation. The Tet offensive shattered America's illusions about military victory in Viet Nam. The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy shattered the nation's illusions, period. Lyndon Johnson dropped out. Richard Nixon bounced back. The Chicago police and their antiwar adversaries turned the Democratic National Convention into a riot...
...inclined to be merciful toward the team's loudmouthed and intrusive owner, George Steinbrenner. But last week Steinbrenner was officially forgiven and rehabilitated by an old sportscaster -- Ronald Reagan. In one of his last official acts as President, Reagan pardoned Steinbrenner for illegally funneling $100,000 to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential re-election campaign, for which the boss had been fined $15,000 and banned from the Yankees' management for 15 months. Said Steinbrenner, who is better known for berating players and managers than offering thanks: "I am very grateful...
When it comes to teaching right from wrong, few people are more qualified than convicted Watergate conspirator Jeb Magruder. Now a minister in Columbus, the former Nixon aide, who pleaded guilty to perjury, heads the city's Commission on Ethics and Values, which last week launched a campaign aimed at inspiring honesty in local citizens. The group was created last year, after the door of an armored car popped open, spilling about $1 million onto a highway; most of the cash was never returned. Funded by private donations, the "Take an Honest Look" campaign will feature forums, TV spots...
...peeking around the hotel, always conscious of who people were and how they operated," he says. Richard Nixon, who campaigned at the Theresa in 1952, was the first politician to be photographed with Ron ("I immediately decided I wanted to become a Democrat," he jokes). Joe Louis, a frequent guest, gave him a pair of his boxing gloves. From the roof of the Theresa, 13 floors high, Ron and his friends would gaze out on the excitement of 125th Street -- the Apollo Theater, the street-corner orators, the hustlers -- and the poverty beyond...
Problems of the Modern Vice Presidency. Professors: former Vice Presidents Richard Nixon and Walter Mondale...