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What really distinguishes these pieces is their sorrow -- particularly for the plight of American blacks and society's losers. Kempton measures leaders by their capacity for compassion, summing up the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. with this pronouncement: "A great man is one who knows that he was not...
Jimmy Carter, who without the Nixon apocalypse and pardon by Ford probably never would have been President, came quietly to the rain-soaked green below Nixon's coffin. His presence was his testimony, going beyond old denunciations and bitter assessments. Carter carries the memory of going on that presidential mission...
When Bill Clinton's time came to speak at the funeral, he turned and glanced back at the tiny Nixon birth home, glossed and manicured far beyond its original luster. Then Clinton quoted the opening line of Nixon's memoirs: "I was born in a house my father built."
Washington -- Clinton adviser DAVID GERGEN, a former aide to Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, sat toward the rear with other members of the Democratic Clinton Administration at the funeral for Nixon last week. James Cavanaugh, also a veteran of the Nixon White House, playfully scribbled a note and...
At Richard Nixon's funeral, four Presidents look back