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Nixon, like Johnson, had a habit for making those around him uncomfortable. While drinking cocktails with the owners of the Los Angeles Times in 1967, Nixon blurted: “I probably shouldn’t tell this…But…Why did the farmer keep a bucket of shit in his living room...
...visited Iraq before the war and concluded of Saddam’s state: “The terror is self-compounding, with the state’s power reinforced by stories that relatives of the victims pale to tell—of fingernail-extracting, eye-gouging, genital-shocking and bucket-drowning. Secret police rape prisoners’ wives and daughters to force confessions and denunciations. There are assassinations, in Iraq and abroad, and, ultimately, the gallows, the firing squads, and the pistol shots to the head.” According to the Documental Centre for Human Rights in Baghdad...
...missing their share of the company's bounty. The firm last year had profits of $2.4 billion, and is expected this week to announce hefty third-quarter earnings. Said Reno Pietrantoni, 53, a millwright who has worked 26 years for Chrysler: "The bonus is really a drop in the bucket compared to what we lost over the last five years." By one estimate, Chrysler workers gave more than $15,000 each in wage concessions...
...money has come at the expense of other health programs and much of the initiative has come from Congress, not the Administration. Says Congressman Henry Waxman of California, who has been leading a drive for more generous support: "The amount being spent on AIDS is a drop in the bucket compared with what we need for this emergency...
...you’re in need of some mindless action-adventure fun, Sahara will do. So relax—buy yourself a big bucket of popcorn, sit back in your mohair-covered theater seat, marvel at all the shiny, expensive speedboats blowing up, and forget all about that six page response paper due Monday...