Word: nixon
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Workfare first became government policy, at least in theory, more than a decade ago. Congress strengthened a Work Incentive (WIN) program in 1971 during the Nixon Administration. But WIN suffered from inadequate funding, mismanagement and weak enforcement. In 1981, with the advent of the Reagan Administration, Congress passed legislation granting states more flexibility in administering WIN. For the first time, AFDC recipients could work in public agencies rather than in private-sector jobs. States were also allowed to use part of a recipient's welfare grant as a wage subsidy to his or her private employer. Given these new liberties...
Hunter Thompson delivered his own surprises. Sent out to cover Humphrey, a wayward whale in the Sacramento River, Thompson instead reported in preposterous detail on an elderly Chinese woman who claimed to be Richard Nixon's former mistress. Thompson devoted a subsequent column to a blistering attack on his "brainless" editor's failure to pay room-service tabs. All good fun, sort of, but other reporters grew angry that Thompson was mugging the Examiner while collecting $1,500 per column...
...shock of death alone did not bring Congress and the President grinding to a halt and produce the largest media event since Nixon's resignation--perhaps since John F. Kennedy was shot. The deceased were added to this year's list of heroes, mourned by the nation like other victims of a cruel fate. Only this time we had blown them up ourselves...
VIEWERS OF THE FIRST 1960 debate between Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy '40 remember most vividly Nixon's brooding, perspiring visage, his dark, shifty eyes, and his shadowy beard growth, all of which stood in contrast to Kennedy's composed image...
...with little more than self-praise and name-droppings. Cosell mentions his presence at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and the 21 Club in New York more than he mentions his presence in the booth for Monday Night Football. He also gratuitously tosses in a story about former President Richard Nixon sending him a letter of praise. The Nixon story has nothing to do with anything else Cosell has talked about throughout the book...