Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: After reading your cover story on California living [Nov. 7]. I immediately checked my mailing address and found that I do indeed live in California. But how can I? My hair is not down to my ankles, I only have one wife, and am not the president of a...
THERE are some weeks when a single event clearly dominates the news, and others when major stories seem to crowd in from all sides, each one competing for attention. This was the week of Apollo 12's blast-off for man's second moon landing, of yet another...
TO lower our voices would be a simple thing," Richard Nixon proclaimed last January after taking the oath of office as President. Before the October antiwar Moratorium, he insisted that "under no circumstances" would he be affected by it. Yet now he has, in effect, abandoned his above-the-battle...
What brought on the Agnew attack? In the past, the Administration has avowed that his salvos have had only tacit, after-the-fact approval from the White House. This one had its genesis in Richard Nixon's office on the morn ing after his Viet Nam speech, when the...
Months before, the Vice President had turned down an invitation to speak at the Midwestern Regional Republican Conference in Des Moines. Last week, just two days before the meeting was to begin, Agnew suddenly reinvited himself. The conference chairman hastily hired the Fort Des Moines Hotel ballroom and scheduled Agnew...