Richard Nixon by John A. Farrell

Author:John A. Farrell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2017-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

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*1 The list of prime movers in American politics and government who cut their teeth with Nixon includes George H. W. Bush, William Rehnquist, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, William Ruckelshaus, John Warner, James Baker, Colin Powell, Antonin Scalia, Henry Paulson, Roger Ailes, Paul Volcker, Pat Buchanan, David Gergen, John Lehman, Lamar Alexander, Richard Darman, Frank Carlucci, Caspar Weinberger, Alexander Haig, and Robert Bork. Speechwriter William Safire became a New York Times columnist; Brian Lamb went on to found C-SPAN, and press aide Diane Sawyer emerged as a TV news star. Leon Panetta was fired for his liberal zeal, switched parties, and served as White House chief of staff, secretary of defense, and director of the CIA.

*2 Though he had played no role in the process (and had no notion of the transformative changes to come), the Internet was born on Nixon’s watch, when scientists at UCLA and other western universities coupled the first nodes of ARPANET, its federally funded precursor.

*3 Green v. Kent County (1968) and Alexander v. Holmes County (1969).

*4 The Haynsworth defeat was, in part, payback for the role that Republicans played in the fall of 1968, employing hardball tactics to stop LBJ’s selection of Abe Fortas to succeed Earl Warren as chief justice. Not wanting Nixon to choose his replacement, Warren had announced his retirement. But once Fortas was blocked, the choice fell to Nixon, who named Warren Burger.

*5 Within a week, House Republican leader Gerald Ford, with information supplied him by the Nixon administration, had launched a defamatory campaign to impeach liberal justice William Douglas. It did not succeed.

*6 Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

*7 The telling exception was among southern blacks, who gave credit to the president and handed Nixon a positive rating in a 1971 Gallup poll; 42 percent approved of the job Nixon was doing, and just 40 percent disapproved.

*8 The Bakke case is 438 U.S. 265 (1978).

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