A Wills Sampler

NELSON ROCKEFELLER. "First-generation millionaires tend to give us libraries. The second and third generation think they should give us themselves. (Naturally, some people want to look this gift horse in the mouth--which may be the reason Rockefeller keeps his teeth on display.)"

BARRY GOLDWATER. "His backers said, 'Barry has an inferiority complex.' He did not. He had an inferiority simplex--the plain knowledge, never shirked, that he is a lightweight. And he loved his country too much to put it in the hands of a lightweight."

GEORGE WALLACE. "All energy and strut . . . he has the dingy attractive air of a B-movie idol, the kind who plays a handsome garage attendant . . . He gives little-boy salutes, snapped off at the end, Wash-your-windshield?"

SPIRO AGNEW. He "has a neckless, lidded flow to him, with wrap-around hair, a tubular perfection to his suits or golf outfits, quiet, burbling oratory. Subaquatic. He was almost out of sight by campaign's end; but a good sonar system could hear him burrowing ahead, on course."

NIXON AND EISENHOWER. The relationship "was like a Calvinist's relation to God, or Ahab's to the whale." After the Checkers speech, "there would never be any trust between them." In the speech, "Nixon was forced to a public accounting of his finances. But all through his career he has given us public accountings of his moral state . . . I think this explains the vague dislike for Nixon that many experience. It is not caused by any one thing he has done or omitted, but by an oppressive moralism and air of apology."

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