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...become the repository for his official papers. He has finally settled on Duke University, his law school alma mater (class of '36), but a number of professors, alumni and students have objected to Duke's willingness to accept the trove. They say the library will commemorate a criminal, a liar, a charlatan and a man who disgraced his country. This may be true, but given the right circumstances, Nixon's opponents should reevaluate their crusade and welcome the papers to the Durham, N.C., campus...
Lemon thus stepped in to make his second appearance as relief manager for Steinbrenner. In 1978 Lemon was named to replace Billy Martin after Martin called Steinbrenner a convicted liar. Lemon took the Yankees to the World Series championship that year but in one of the game's strangest turnarounds, was himself ousted in June of 1979-in favor of Martin. Martin lasted until the end of the season before departing for Oakland, then Dick Howser moved onto the hot seat. A year later, after winning the most regular-season games in baseball (103, vs. 59 losses), Howser...
...your story "Saved by the Moral Minority" [Aug. 17], you quote Prime Minister Begin as having said in parliament of his colleague and leader of the opposition, Shimon Peres, "The gentleman is a liar; the gentleman is a liar." The Prime Minister never uttered such words. What the Prime Minister said was: "In the British Parliament it is forbidden to say, 'The right honorable gentleman is a liar.' It is also unparliamentary to say, 'The right honorable gentleman is lying!' It is, however, acceptable to say, 'The right honorable gentleman told a lie!' This...
...Knesset session, raucous and bitter, lasted for almost 14 hours. Opposition Leader Shimon Peres charged that the coalition talks had been preoccupied with "payoffs for the religious parties and ministries for the power hungry." Begin, who was heckled repeatedly, said angrily of Peres, "The gentleman is a liar; the gentleman is a liar." Reviewing the proceedings, a ranking civil servant in Jerusalem predicted that the new Knesset would be "entertaining, but disgraceful." And from all signs, ineffectual...
...disadvantage," Edwin Ginn '18, a Boston tinancier, charged in 1956 when he resigned as the Class of 1918's representative to the Harvard Fund Council. Ginn, protesting the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James Lecturer, called the famous scientist "a known Communist sympathizer and confessed liar in a matter of espionage." Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) also challenged then-President Nathan M. Pusey's appointment of Oppenheimer, whom McCarthy considered a "security risk...