Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accountable to both Congress and the voters, he cannot "run amok in this country and get away with it." Nixon paraphrased a Civil War statement by Abraham Lincoln: "Actions which otherwise would be unconstitutional could become lawful if undertaken for the purpose of preserving the Constitution and the nation." Said Nixon: "Now that's the kind of action I'm referring to." Again, Frost refused to equate preserving the Union in the 1860s with deterring dissent in the 1970s...
Tragic Way. Insisted Nixon: "This nation was torn apart in an ideological way by the war in Viet Nam, as much as the Civil War tore apart the nation when Lincoln was President." And he added a personal aside: "Nobody can know what it means for a President to be sitting in that White House working late at night and to have hundreds of thousands of demonstrators charging through the streets." Not even earplugs, he said, could have blocked the noise...
...Public Enemy No. 1 in Palestine, with a $30,000 price on his head. To the Arabs, he was a ruthless terrorist responsible for the massacre of innocent Palestinian villagers. To Israel's first Premier, David Ben-Gurion, he was a dangerous fascist who threatened to overthrow the newborn nation's fledgling government...
...saved from destruction. We started to fight to save our people. Now take [Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser] Arafat. What is his aim? He said in the so-called Palestinian charter that it was the destruction of the Jewish state. Israel must disappear. He wants to destroy a nation. Our aim is to save a people. When I am called a terrorist and Arafat is called a guerrilla, I think it is the apex of injustice...
...tables, the atmosphere became tense-and remained so. At times, strident voices could be heard through the closed doors. Said one American official later: "Vorster's expression never changed, nor did his tone." Mondale spoke of American efforts to reduce discrimination and of the resulting benefits to the nation. The South Africans spoke of their 300-year history in Africa and, at one point, taunted the U.S. delegation about the slaughter of American Indians in the 18th and 19th centuries. At the end of the first day, as negotiators prepared to attend a formal dinner given by Austria...