Word: nixon
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Professor Bok's influence seems to have waned, but Richard Nixon's seemed to have waxed. Former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky says in connection with the finding that he did not pass on his knowledge of Safran's CIA funding (was that the result of oversight of was it policy?) that "it was an administrative error." Mortal sin and venial sin were good enough for St. Augustine but not for Dean Rosovsky, who has come up with a third theological category: administrative sin. What is the penance reuired for absolution? Or may it be obtained by presidential pardon...
...Review's Flanagan says that McLaughlin "has to get some backbone." Sitting beneath a framed photo of Richard M. Nixon, the conservative student leader and former shanty-buster told The Crimson that the President's lack of leadership and "inability to lay down a law and stick by it" typified his administrative policy...
...politics. A native Californian, Lyng, 67, started his career by taking over his father's bean-and-seed-processing business in 1949 and doubling profits during the next 18 years. He went on to hold top positions in the agriculture departments of California Governor Ronald Reagan and President Richard Nixon. After a six-year stint as head of the American Meat Institute, he returned to the USDA as Deputy Secretary during Reagan's first term as President. In Washington he has earned a reputation as a smooth operator who can handle lobbyists, bureaucrats and even Congressmen, with a cool head...
...election this year. State Republicans, fearing that Cuomo may also be a strong presidential candidate in 1988, have been courting an unlikely contender who they think could at least bloody, if not beat, the Governor. Last week Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, allowed that Republican leaders had urged him to run, and that he was actually engaged in a "consideration of their views...
...Richard Nixon claimed his part just as soon as he became President. He eagerly plugged into the moon landing, talking by phone to Neil Armstrong and Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin on the lunar surface. "This certainly has to be the most historic phone call ever made." It was even more, and Nixon knew it. He launched a global diplomatic odyssey timed to take advantage of the Apollo 11 success. His itinerary placed him on the aircraft carrier Hornet just as the moon crew was fished out of the ocean and lifted onto the TV screens of people all over the globe...