Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Price was drawn into the White House Watergate efforts back in April, 1973 when Nixon called upon him to draft the speech announcing the resignations of his two chief White House aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. But in the last week of July, 1974, Ray Price unobtrusively entered into the inner circle of actors involved in the Watergate drama. As Nixon's collaborator on the resignation speech and one of the aides who advised the president during the ultimate unravelling of Watergate, Price received a close-up look at the final days of President Nixon...
...battle lines were clearly drawn. On the north side of the White House in Lafayette Square, some 1,000 opponents of the Shah of Iran had massed to protest his first state visit to the U.S. in 2½ years. Most of the demonstrators were Iranians studying in the U.S., including some who paid their own way to Washington and some who were assisted by student organizations. Wearing cardboard or muslin masks-to prevent Iranian secret police from photographing them, they said-the protesters bore slogans reading, SHAH: FASCIST MURDERER; SHAH IS A U.S. PUPPET; and CIA OUT OF IRAN...
...little oddly--with a sincerity that caught the fancy of all who watched him. And the fans flocked by the tens of thousands to see him, to cheer their hero. The oldtimers said they had never seen anything like it, not even Babe Ruth in his heyday had drawn such mobs. Baseball was still the great pastime it had always been, and the crowd loved the feeling...
...1830s thousands of settlers fled British rule by migrating into the interior in ox-drawn wagons. There were bitter fights between the voortrekkers and black tribes migrating from the north in search of fresh grazing land. The discovery of gold in the Transvaal in 1886 led to an invasion of white English-speaking settlers?and eventually to Afrikaner defeat in the Anglo-Boer...
...Mather House security committee has drawn up proposals to improve the safety of residents there, after the rape three weeks ago of two women at Leverett House...