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...that former President Richard Nixon, 71, never did like the portrait of him by Alexander Clayton that hung for three years outside the East Room. So last January, Nixon personally commissioned Houston Painter J. Anthony Wills, 72, to produce a new likeness for $20,000. Wills, who had done Dwight Eisenhower's White House portrait and had also rendered Henry Kissinger for the State Department, went to New York City to see his subject. But he tried to paint him as he looked while in office. The final 45¾ in.-by-34⅞ in. canvas took two weeks...
...half foot below) was better than the best Cuban he ever fought. "He looked at me like 'Hey, I'm from Brooklyn too,' " Breland said, sorry to be so wide-eyed about it but never seeing things quite so clearly before. "Breland looked good to me," Dwight Williams countered, "and I ain't nobody's chump. I'm still going some place, because I done fought the best in the world." Hey, they all get their chance...
...handful of districts, his top-of-the-ticket strength was enough to tip close races to his party. But a presidential candidate's ability to influence the assorted imponderables of personality and local issues in House districts has always been more theoretical than real. When Dwight Eisenhower overwhelmed Adlai Stevenson by more than 9 million votes in 1956, Republicans actually lost two seats in the House. Richard Nixon's 1972 landslide of 49 states and 60.7% of the votes produced a G.O.P. gain of just twelve House seats, and most of those resulted from redistricting...
...support of Congress and the Administration, the ideas appear to have drawn public support and can even be considered a logical evolution of the space agency's overall program. Over the part three decades, the development of the space program has been based on three major decisions: Dwight Eisenhower's 1955 move to initiate space travel with the development of the Vanguard satellite; John F. Kennedy's 1961 decision to put people on the moon; and Richard M. Nixon's 1969 plan to do away with the disposable space craft and develop the shuttle. The next stop. NASA officials...
...forget about having my firstborn named after you file. I went to a Mets-Cubs clash late this lamented summer and saw Dwight Gooden set down the visitors without a hit in the first four innings...