Word: oval
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...session in the Executive Office Building when White House Aide John Whitaker informed him of a presidential summons. When Hickel left the room, Whitaker told the others: "The Secretary won't be back." Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman sat in for most of the 25-minute meeting in the Oval Office. Nixon dislikes such confrontations. For months the President and other members of the Administration had subjected Hickel to almost systematic pressures and slights designed to make him feel sufficiently unwelcome to resign. Now Nixon, after the briefest pleasantries, came to the point: he wanted Hickel's resignation, "effective...
Saint or Pariah. Abruptly, the letter made Hickel a sort of Establishment saint to many students and a pariah at the White House. Nixon did not object to the criticism, but to the fact that it was leaked to the press even before it arrived in the Oval Office. Says one White House aide: "The President thought it was an effort to embarrass him personally, and he never got over it. He never trusted the man after that...
Hall and the congressional group argued strongly for running Nixon's campaign from outside the White House in 1972. They want to remove partisan politics from the Oval Office and restore party unity, which, they believe, was sacrificed during this year's election. Nixon will face the classic dilemma of any President running for reelection. A strong White House staff including his most trusted advisers tends to run the campaign in its own way, ignoring the national committeemen, who have the firmer ties with the state organizations. White House domination makes the larger party organization atrophy, as occurred...
...inward. "I have never," said his friend Jankel Adler, "seen a man who had such creative quiet. His face was that of a man who knows about day and night, sky and sea and air. I have often seen Klee's window from the street, with his pale oval face like a large egg, and his open eyes pressed to the windowpane." Yet his output was huge. Between Klee's birth in 1879 and his death from a wasting disease in a Swiss sanatorium 60 years later, he produced over 9,000 works. Perhaps one could no more...
President Nixon tosses, turns. The pantheon of the past retreats. Now it is 1971. From his Oval Office, Nixon sends to the Senate the nomination of a Mississippi judge for the Supreme Court. Zap! Confirmed. He asks $10 billion for an expanded ABM system. Pow! Appropriated. He proposes cuts in school funds. Chop! Done. In one corner of his dream stands a forlorn J. William Fulbright, talking while no one listens. With other prickly Democratic Sena'e oligarchs, Fulbright has been toppled by a Republican capture of the Senate. In a far recess of the Senate chamber, a vestigial cluster...