Word: parvin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Murphy believes that Fortas' story is murder-suicide because the justice and top adviser to Johnson, who proved so adroit in managing the crises that others confronted, suffered from personal paralysis when in similar situations. After all had not Justice William O. Douglas himself had an arrangement with the Parvin Foundation while on the Court that was remarkably similar to Fortas' own connection to the Wolfson Foundation...
...Parvin first met with the President the day after the Tower report was released. Reagan had read only about a third of the document, but he was able to give Parvin a sense of what he wanted to say. While he did not substantially alter the work the following week, the President added a few important flourishes. "It was a personal speech," said a White House source, "so it had to come from...
...Before an appearance," says Landon Parvin, the President's top jokewriter, "we'll put together three to six pages of one-liners. We rely mostly on self-deprecatory humor." Reagan and his writers rely especially on jokes about his age, a potentially serious liability. Speaking to the Washington Press Club, Reagan mentioned its founding in 1919, and added, "It seems like only yesterday." Last week in a speech in Atlanta, there he went again: "I share with you the honor of this special occasion, the 105th annual meeting of the great American Bar Association." A presidential pause...
...sing-Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter in years past had danced a few steps-Nancy gave the bandleader a confident nod, then in a clear and courageous voice delivered her own secondhand prose, written for the occasion by Sheila Tate, her press secretary, and White House Speechwriter Landon Parvin: "Even though they tell me that I'm no longer Queen/ Did Ronnie have to buy me that new sewing machine/ Secondhand clothes, I'm wearing secondhand clothes/ I sure hope Ed Meese sews." Among those cheering in the audience was Husband Ronald Reagan, 71, who laughed harder than...
...bomb secrets; in 1966, when the thrice-divorced Douglas, then 67, married Cathleen Heffernan, then 23, and was accused by Kansas Republican Robert Dole of using "bad judgment from a matrimonial standpoint"; and in 1970, when House Minority Leader Gerald Ford accused Douglas of accepting a salary from the Parvin Foundation, which was set up by a man with links to Las Vegas gambling...