Word: son-in-law
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Certain Symmetry. "I always campaign better with an Eisenhower," Nixon winks as he introduces his future son-in-law. Indeed, David has become something of a star attraction. Inheriting both the name and his grandfather's magnificent grin, the tousled, sometimes diffident college junior lends a certain symmetry to the Nixon drive in the minds of many Republicans. His very presence recalls calmer times when Ike was in the White House...
...life ended in an explosion of violence. One night in 1945, while visiting his son-in-law at the Austrian resort of Mittersill, he stepped outdoors for a cigar, unaware that U.S. occupation forces were at that moment closing in on the house to arrest his son-in-law for black-market activities. Somehow he encountered a U.S. soldier in the dark. He was shot, staggered inside and died...
After 12 weeks of fusing 750-lb. bombs in Cam Ranh Bay, Airman First Class Patrick J. Nugent, 24, has volunteered for still more hazardous duty. Now in the first stages of training as a loadmaster for C-123 transport planes, President Johnson's younger son-in-law will eventually be charged with loading and dumping out supplies to troops in the field-an assignment that may take him into the thick of combat...
...targets he could not see. What he could see, however, was Madeleine Morgenstern, daughter of a film executive whose products had received Truffaut's hardest knocks. After they were married, Truffaut continued his criticism, this time at the family dinner table. In exasperation, Papa Morgenstern challenged his son-in-law to make films as good as the ones he criticized-and provided enough money for the brash young man to make a fool of himself...
Then he sped on to Mulhouse, near the German border, where his son-in-law, General Alain de Boissieu, commands the French army's 7th Division. During the meeting, at which twelve other generals were present-including Jacques Massu, the commander of French forces in Germany, who, ironically, led the army rebellion in Algeria that brought De Gaulle to power in 1958-De Gaulle asked how the army would react if there were a showdown with the French left. The generals first told him in no uncertain terms that the army would never fire on students or coerce striking...