Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito was never farther from the Moscow line than when he told a group of film makers: "The world might be far better off if it were left to the artists instead of to the politicians." Those film makers had been making The Battle of Neretva...
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs is one of Washington's trickier jobs-explaining Foggy Bottom to the press and country at large. It is an office that has been vacant since the Johnson Administration left town. Now President Nixon has found a man with a delicate touch...
Television newsmen last week were still viewing Vice President Agnew's attacks on the press with alarm, but one unelected elite-the humor columnists -was beginning to relax and enjoy it. "Boy, you guys have put me back in business," Art Buchwald told Administration Communications Director Herb Klein shortly...
In one column, Buchwald squelched rumors that Vice President Agnew was planning to dump Richard Nixon in 1972. "A spokesman for the Vice President," he wrote, "told me that Mr. Agnew was very satisfied with the job his President was doing and that he even intended to give him more...
Art Hoppe of the San Francisco Chronicle went to the future tense. It is January 1971, and President Nixon has just assessed the state of the Union. "Well, Chet, do you have an instant analysis?" "Yes, I do, David. I'd say it was the most magnificent, glorious, stirring...