Word: slush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...During the "slush fund" scandal of the 1952 election, Nixon dictated his resignation from Eisenhower's ticket. Two of his aides refused to send the telegram. Who were they...
From Paris, France, to Xenia, Ohio, to Bad Axe, Mich., Richard Nixon last week took his own advice, as set forth in the Six Crises description of how he defused the 1952 uproar over his political slush fund. This time, his counteroffensive was against the gathering danger of his impeachment, and the peripatetic President's message to the American public was that despite Watergate he was still greatly respected and needed abroad, and could still be welcomed and on top of things at home. But his travels provided Nixon with no more than a brief respite from the pressures...
They're condemned to an excruciating surface life. It's 1973, it's winter, it's Boston and New York and Greyhounds and trains--all browning grass and filthy slush and highway grit. Usually the scene is familiar, and you feel as if you're in the background of every shot, with a knapsack maybe, not noticing the three sailors standing smoking in the corner by the luggage lockers. The career soldier on leave for a good time travels the circuit of the friendless and the mobile, nowhere to go but the next station or bar or cheap hotel...
...blanche to travel to big stories: the Attica prison insurrection, the Howard Johnson rooftop Shootout in New Orleans, the court-martial of Lieut. William Galley. After nearly three years of digging into Miami operations of the Federal Housing Authority, Herald reporters tracked down the existence of an alleged political slush fund for Florida Senator Edward J. Gurney. Although the paper backed Nixon in 1972, it has kept reporters busy looking into Bebe Rebozo's Florida finances...
...everything in a nimbus of mist. It's the very best kind of make-out movie, all promises. And if you're not up for a few hours of huggy-wug and kissy-bear--though it would be a shame not to play since the movie is jived to slush up the heartbeats--the movie has got messages with a vengeance. And that is, really, its only problem...