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...Richard Nixon is telling David Frost about the day in March 1973 when he realized he had to fire his chief domestic advisor, John Ehrlichman, for abetting the Watergate cover-up - or, rather, for being fingered by the press for doing it. Tears glimmer in the ex-President's eyes, then he closes them to contain the pain as he staggers through his reciting of the conversation. "I said, 'You know, John, when I went to bed last night,' I said, 'I hoped,' I said, 'I hoped, I almost prayed I wouldn't wake up this morning.'" He grimaces...
...Richard Nixon, no less than David Frost, was a TV personality. Every U.S. president from John Kennedy on has had to be one: the nation's talk-show host, defining its agenda and character. (Franklin D. Roosevelt created the same niche on radio with his Fireside Chats.) TV stardom is a matter of connecting with the masses by peddling an agreeable personality. That's a challenge for which the brainy, devious Nixon was ill-suited...
...include "his creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, Occupation Safety and Health Administration, and support for the clean water act, school desegregation, and affirmative action." You could say that the conservative agenda of the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations was to revoke, not FDR's New Deal, but Richard Nixon's liberal legacy...
...Richard B. Freeman, an economics professor who focuses on labor issues, said it was “absolutely likely” that Bush’s NLRB decision would be repealed. President-elect Barack Obama championed organized labor in his campaign, saying in April that “it’s time we had a president who doesn’t choke saying the word ‘union,’” according to remarks on Obama’s Web site...
...Nixon, Richard M. •antipathy of - "I'll never let those sons-of-bitches in the White House again. Never, never, never" - toward Ivy League school presidents is voiced by •desire of to have Brookings Institution "cleaned out in a way that has somebody else take the blame" is voiced by •enemies - "The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard one hundred times and never forget it" - are seen everywhere...