Notebook: The Kinder, Gentler Richard Nixon
By Kathleen Adama, Charlotte Falermayer, Janice M. Horowitz, Lina Lofaro, Belinda Luscombe Alain L. Saners, Sidney Urquhart
Winners & Losers
The Windy City
Winners
Albert Belle
Baseball bad boy gets $10 million a year to play for White Sox.
Move over, Dennis Rodman
Chicago, The Musical
Decades-old musical opens big on Broadway; finds that the '90s
are its kind of time
Dan Rostenkowski
The Cook County machine is back: Dems recapture seat he lost
following scandal
Losers
Mel Reynolds
While former Congressman is in jail, he and broke wife Marisol
are arraigned for fraud
Tony Silva
Renowned parrot advocate gets almost seven years and $100,000
fine for bird smuggling
Jenny Jones
Facing an ugly future with civil trial and lost reputation after
Schmitz murder conviction
Verbatim
"I love you. I love you like a brother. Keep the faith."
--Richard Nixon to chief of staff H.R. Haldeman after a
televised speech in which he announced Haldeman's resignation,
from just released tapes
"The way I want that handled, Bob, is through another way. I
want Brooking--just to break in. Break in and take it out! You
understand?"
--Nixon ordering Haldeman to steal Vietnam files from the
Brookings Institution, a year before Watergate revelations
"One agora! It means the government wants to show how much a
Palestinian person's life is worth. Its message is very clear:
'This is how cheap you are for us.'"
--A Palestinian-rights activist, after four Israeli soldiers
were fined one agora, worth about one-third of a U.S. cent, for
negligently killing a young Palestinian, in the Washington Post
Duffer's Defense
"There's no golf pro on Air Force One. Nor on Air Force Two. Nor
on the press plane."
--White House Response To Reports In The Australian Press That
The President Brought Along A Pro
Losing It
"You are a slimy coward. Go register in another party."
--Representative Bob Dornan To Fellow Republican William
Dougherty, After He Supported Dornan'S (Victorious) Opponent
More TIME This Week
|
