Word: nixon
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...Peter Jennings of ABC. (Yet when occasions require it, Brokaw, perhaps as a result of his long early morning servitude on the Today show, is a better interviewer.) The right wing's enmity toward Rather, based on things like the time he impudently sassed back President Nixon, makes some conservatives eager to buy CBS just to control him. Such is the presumed influence of men hired to report the news, not to be the news...
...Reagan Doctrine is the third such attempt since Viet Nam. The first was the Nixon Doctrine: relying on friendly regimes to police their regions. Unfortunately, the jewel in the crown of this theory was the Shah of Iran. Like him, it was retired in 1979 to a small Panamanian island. Next came the Carter Doctrine, declaring a return to unilateral American action, if necessary, in defense of Western interests. That doctrine rested on the emergence of a rapid deployment force. Unfortunately, the force turned out neither rapid nor deployable. It enjoys a vigorous theoretical existence in southern Florida, whence...
...Brezhnev Doctrine proclaimed in 1968 that the Soviet sphere only expands. The Reagan Doctrine is meant as its antithesis. It declares that the U.S. will work at the periphery to reverse that expansion. How? Like the Nixon Doctrine, it turns to proxies. Unlike the Nixon Doctrine, it supports not the status quo but revolution...
...Presidents in 1962 and by 1968 had extended it to their wives, widows and children under 16. The Secret Service, true to its name, is tight-lipped about the nature of the protection, but allows that agents are assigned 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to guard Nixon (protection for his wife Pat was dropped last year at his request), Gerald and Betty Ford, Lady Bird Johnson and Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter (Amy is 17). The Secret Service grudgingly admits that the cost for protecting former Presidents and their families last year was $10.7 million...
...imperial former presidency," introduced legislation last year that would phase out protection for former Presidents five years after they leave office. He would also like to limit what the Government chips in for presidential libraries and for ex-Chief Executives' offices and staffs. Says Chiles: "I think President Nixon's announcement is the best news we've had. His example is a good one for other past Presidents to follow, but we need to make it law." A spokesman for Ford said the ex-President anticipates that he will follow Nixon's lead, but notes, "We won't be driven...