Word: nixon
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...have had swarms of imitators, spouting rich, majestic anecdote after rich, majestic anecdote, taking us behind the scenes for a romanticized look at the men who moved mountains. Joe McGinniss's wrong-headed and hopelessly dated Selling of the President 1968, which purported to expose the machinations of Richard Nixon's and men and their duping of an unsuspecting American public, has been typical of the genre. Packed with internal memos and insider information, McGinniss's book sought to convince the public that Nixon had won the Presidency because he manipulated his images at the expense of a thorough examination...
...were more than good theater. But the last three elections have involved electoral forces that are so far removed from the back room as to render insider accounts almost irrelevant. It is a liberal conceit of these three accounts, especially Time's Henry's "outsider" history, that Reagan, like Nixon before him, had pulled a fast one on the public and the earnest but naive Democrats. Henry, waxing ominous, says of the President in one particularly overdone passage...
...Byrd found this a welcome contrast to the previous "stonewalling" of Soviet negotiators, who had insisted that SDI research of any kind must cease as the prelude to an arms-control deal. It could point toward the kind of trade suggested by such American conservatives as former President Richard Nixon and Columnist William Safire: limitations on the deployment and, perhaps, testing of defensive systems, though not on research, in return for cuts in the numbers of missiles and warheads. Although Reagan has ruled out using SDI as a bargaining chip, such a deal has an ap-pealing logic...
Your mentioning Nixon certainly gives me some associations and some memories of a different kind. After all, it was in a very difficult period of our relationship that we managed to find, with Nixon when he was President, the solutions to some very important issues. I recall still further back in 1961 the meeting between Khrushchev and President Kennedy in Vienna. That was a very difficult time as well. There was the Caribbean crisis, yet in 1963 we saw the partial test-ban treaty. Even though that was again a time of crisis, the two sides and their leaders...
...summit is a high-risk affair for both men. For Gorbachev, it is something of a debut. As Richard Nixon points out in an article on summitry in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, Gorbachev may deal with five American Presidents. For Reagan, by contrast, this meeting could be his first, last and only chance to sit down as President with the Soviet leader. The chances of failure, or at least widespread public disappointment, are considerable. Therefore the White House and the Kremlin have been maneuvering in recent weeks to accomplish three goals: 1) lower expectations for success, 2) assure...