Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the town's hierarchy, few rank higher than 85-year-old Andrew Chyrsikos, another of Spiro's cousins. He is what the Greeks call a "Beenamerican," meaning that he lived in America and returned home again. He sailed away, in fact, with Spiro's father, and...
Among those who are to gather this week at the cape to watch the blast-off is Richard Nixon, who will be the first President to witness a launching. It will be Nixon's second space first as President. In July, he was aboard the carrier Hornet to welcome...
Southern Strategy. The court's order brushed aside a Justice Department request to allow school boards time to draw up their own plans. The request, prepared by Jerris Leonard, chief of the Civil Rights Division, made it plain that the Administration does not plan to abandon its passive role...
Win or lose, Nixon believes that he has ample cause to continue his fight. Were he to withdraw the nomination, he reasons, the act would lend credence to charges that Haynsworth was less than candid about his financial dealings. Nixon also stands to gain political points in the South; Southerners...
Venture Opposition. Even so, there is no doubt that a Haynsworth defeat would hurt the President. Having thrown his full weight behind the nomination, he cannot hope to retrieve his prestige unscathed. Party unity, already damaged by the fracas, will suffer further; Senators will perhaps be emboldened to venture more...