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NATION, Page 34Grapevine
SAVE THE DATE. The California town of Yorba Linda (pop. 50,000)
has few claims to fame. But it is the birthplace of Richard Nixon,
and this month its city council is expected to declare the former
President's birthday a local holiday, effective Jan. 9, 1990.
Explains Yorba Linda city councilman Gene Wisner: "He got into a
lot of hot water over Watergate, but he stood by his staff when he
could have cleared himself and let them deal with the problem." The
councilman might try telling that to H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman
and John Dean, all of whom were, in effect, fired by Nixon, and
went to prison, while their boss enjoyed a pardon.
WRIGHT TO LIFE. In 1972 Jim Wright turned down the presidency
of the American Income Life Insurance Co. of Waco, Texas, run by
his pal, Democratic fund raiser Bernard Rapoport. No longer Speaker
of the House, Wright has accepted Rapoport's latest offer: making
pep talks to the company's salesmen and clients for a salary
described by his new boss as "so little I'm afraid to announce it."
While shopping for a new Fort Worth home, Wright and wife Betty are
living in a condo bought from developer George Mallick, whose ties
to the Speaker were criticized by the House ethics committee.
TOUGHER THAN AILES. Roger Ailes, the pugnacious media guru who
draped George Bush in the Stars and Stripes and helped hang Willie
Horton around Michael Dukakis' neck, may have met his match in this
week's New York City mayoral primary. Ailes fled the campaign of
cosmetic magnate Ronald Lauder and later advised his rival, former
U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. But Lauder's adman, Arthur
Finkelstein, has stung the prosecutor with TV spots depicting him
as a big spender who is weak on the death penalty and who even
condones anti-Semitism. Crying foul, Ailes and Giuliani called the
ads a "shameful pack of lies."
WHY IS THIS MAN SMILING? Ailes also found time last week to
advise George Bush on his first TV address from the Oval Office.
But after a faintly smiling Bush cited the number of babies born
with a drug addiction and other grim statistics, Ailes asked other
officials watching at the White House, "What's with the grin?" The
explanation from aides: Bush is emotional, hates to show it and
overcompensates by lightening his expression too much. Sighed one
senior official: "Whenever he tries to talk about something really
serious, he gets this grin on his face."