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...article titled "Kissinger the Kike." This was run in the Sunday paper, and was written by Mr. McQuaid. It was not an attack on the Jewish people, but a comment on the fact that Mr. Nixon's harshest critics happen to be Jewish, and this is a rather strange combination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNPLEASANT SURPRISES | 2/22/1974 | See Source »

...frequently seemed to be playing musical chairs. This year alone, the vital post of chief energy adviser to the President has been filled by three different men. Last week the Administration seemed finally to click on a winning choice. In a move that drew praise even from his harshest critics, President Nixon ordered a sweeping reorganization of the Government's energy policymaking system and installed a tough-minded former investment banker, Deputy Treasury Secretary William Simon, as his newest energy czar (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: Getting It Under One Roof | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...middle classes, and thereby reduce the threat to U.S. domination of the country posed by men like Fidel Castro leading rural peasants to power. Representative democracy was the optimal form of government for Latin American nations, but the United States has had few qualms dealing with even the harshest military dictatorships if American hegemony is protected...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Urban Guerrillas Try to Fight Military Rule | 12/12/1973 | See Source »

...Perhaps harshest of all was Oregon's Republican Senator Bob Pack wood, who told Nixon that "credibility has always been your short suit." He observed that "when one person gives his word to another, that is a bond which those of us in politics revere highly. Congress believes you breached your word in the firing of Cox." And he told Nixon: "For too long this Administration has given the public the impression that its standard of conduct was not that it must be above suspicion, but that it must merely be above criminal guilt. Mr. President, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CRISIS: Nixon Presses His Counterattack | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

When war broke out in the Middle East, Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson proved once again that Israel has no firmer friend on Capitol Hill. He was the first in the Senate to call for massive U.S. military aid to Israel; he advocated a decisive Israeli victory; he offered the harshest criticism of the policy of détente. "In recent months," he said, "the flow of Soviet arms into Syria reached floodlike proportions, and yet Dr. Kissinger comes before the American people to say that Soviet behavior has been moderate and not irresponsible. I cannot agree. I believe that Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mideast War: Israel's Best Friend in Congress | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

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