Pour a couple drinks into a Republican above a certain age, turn the conversation to politics, and the odds are that sooner or later he will start to grumble about the bad rap Richard Nixon got.
The millionaires next door? To me, Donald and Mildred Othmer — the “unassuming” Brooklyn couple who recently left a staggering $800 million estate to charity — were the millionaires in the basement.
Ninety years ago, Max Beerbohm drew a series of cartoons titled “The Young Self Meets the Old Self” about the strange twists in the lives of the famous and near-famous of his day.
In the 1970s, odd-looking people with shaved heads used to hang around the edges of college campuses, searching for students who appeared lonely, hungover, or adrift.