Word: nixon
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Volcker made his name in the public sector while serving as President Richard Nixon's under secretary of the Treasury for monetary affairs. In an effort to rescue the lagging dollar and rebuild the troubled international finance system, Volcker engaged in his own version of shuttle diplomacy. He traveled to international banking capitals and met with foreign finance leaders, ultimately restructuring the international debt...
...remember back in 1970 when the faculty of the State University at Albany, where I worked for 20 years until my retirement voted to condemn Nixon's invasive of Cambodia. Then, a few days later, enough conservatives, some trying to think they were just academic purists, preaching "academic freedom" and "the university should not get involved in politics," managed to call another meeting and get out resolution rescinded. But their reneging vote, much as they wanted not to think so, was just as political as ours. It was a failure to vote against that...
...running the presidency. Meese, Baker, Deaver, sounding -- and often acting -- like an infield in the American League, now will be part of the lore that includes Nicolay and Hay, who served Lincoln, Colonel House, who advised Wilson, Kennedy's Irish Mafia and the infamous Berlin Wall, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, Nixon's unfortunate duo who ended up in jail...
...case arose in 1979 when the Nation obtained a copy of Ford's manuscript from an undisclosed source and quickly put together a summary of 2,250 words, 300 of which were direct quotations. The chosen quotes featured the ex- President's defense of his pardon of Richard Nixon, and Nation Editor Victor Navasky argued that Ford's own words on the pardon and other subjects were "hot news." The book's publishers, Harper & Row and Reader's Digest, sued, charging that Navasky had violated the copyright laws and stolen former President Ford's right to determine the time...
Ervin, a judge in North Carolina for 14 years, arrived on the Hill in 1954. In his first major Senate speech, he castigated the maverick Wisconsin Republican, Joseph McCarthy. Although his civil libertarianism and antipathy to Richard Nixon would again endear him to liberals in the 1970s, Ervin was profoundly conservative. He was a diehard supporter of the Viet Nam War, anti- ERA and an unswerving opponent of civil rights laws. According to Ervin's strictly states-rights' reading of the Constitution, the document ought to forbid federal civil rights intervention, as well as the no-knock search warrants...