Word: patly
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...prevailing literary wind this fall is from the Southeast. The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy's high-blown family saga of coastal South Carolina, began to stir interest in May at the American Booksellers Association convention in New Orleans. Introduced by Walter Cronkite, Conroy regaled publishing executives and retailers with funny stories about his career and family. With just the right amount of country-boy shuffle, he told how his father, a rough Marine Corps fighter pilot, and his mother, a genteel Georgia beauty, gave new meaning to the word incompatibility. Conroy reminded everyone that his father was the model...
...Washington, D.C., law firm of Hogan andHartson is conducting the defense. Their legalfees are paid by People for the American Way andthe American Civil Liberties Union. The plaintiffsare being financed by fundamentalist preacher theRev. Pat Robertson, said Coles
...published in September. "I wrote my book for a lot of reasons," Julie said last week. "I wanted to give * a full picture of my parents together, because so many times they've been viewed from controversy." Julie strips away the image of her mother as "Plastic Pat" to show a woman who held hands with her husband in White House receiving lines when she thought no one was looking, who escaped the claustrophobic atmosphere of the White House by occasionally sneaking out after dinner to stroll the streets of downtown Washington. Rather than complain about the frigid air conditioning...
...Pat Nixon thought her husband should burn the Watergate tapes, Julie reports. Her mother was so upset by the scandalous disclosures that she stopped reading the newspapers, and she believed to the end that Nixon had done nothing to require a pardon. For her the pardon was "the saddest day of my life...
While recovering from a debilitating stroke -- suffered in part, says Julie, because her mother read Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of Nixon's fight for his presidency, The Final Days -- Pat Nixon was resting on the patio one afternoon in San Clemente, looking through the window into the house where her husband sat. "Watergate is the only crisis that ever got me down," she told her daughter. "And I know I will never live to see the vindication. The thing that's so sad is that I don't think there is a man living who has more...