{"id":183338,"date":"2014-12-21T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/21\/you-dont-need-to-be-an-alcoholic-to-work-with-richard-nixon-but-it-helps\/"},"modified":"2014-12-21T23:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T04:42:00","slug":"you-dont-need-to-be-an-alcoholic-to-work-with-richard-nixon-but-it-helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/21\/you-dont-need-to-be-an-alcoholic-to-work-with-richard-nixon-but-it-helps\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don&#8217;t Need to be an Alcoholic to Work with Richard Nixon, but it Helps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, NPR had a story about Stephen Hess&#8217;s book, <i>The Professor And The President<\/i>, which detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php?storyId=369398013\">how Daniel Patrick Moynihan became one of Richard M. Nixon&#8217;s most influential domestic policy advisers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking that it Moynihan&#8217;s heavy drinking might have had something to do with is.<\/p>\n<p>If I found myself working as Nixon as a domestic policy adviser, I&#8217;d be polishing off a 5<sup>th<\/sup> of Bourbon a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, NPR had a story about Stephen Hess&#8217;s book, The Professor And The President, which detailed how Daniel Patrick Moynihan became one of Richard M. Nixon&#8217;s most influential domestic policy advisers. I&#8217;m thinking that it Moynihan&#8217;s heavy drinking might have had something to do with is. If I found myself working as Nixon &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,1050,1086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-snark","category-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}