Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard Nixon will no doubt sleep more easily knowing that his new dog, Brownie, barks vociferously at the first sign of a stranger. After some 17 years of round-the-clock Secret Service protection, the former President has decided to drop his guards. According to a Nixon spokesman, the gesture was made to help trim the federal deficit. As soon as he hires a private agency to take care of his security needs, America's taxpayers will be relieved of paying an estimated $3 million a year for the three shifts of agents that guard him seven days a week...
...young, and she left before showing the effects of office," observes White House Curator Clement Conger. To make room for the painting on the left side of the door to the Diplomatic Reception Room, the traditional position for the most recent First Ladies, Conger moved the painting of Pat Nixon to the east lobby. He tactfully insists that Mrs. Nixon's new position in the portrait pecking order is only slightly less prominent...
...American U-2 intelligence plane over the Soviet Union, Lodge displayed in the Security Council a wooden plaque bearing the seal of the U.S. The plaque, which had hung for 15 years in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, turned out to be bugged. Later that year Lodge became Richard Nixon's running mate on the presidential ticket that lost to Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Lodge was a sound campaigner, though he often reserved time for an afternoon...
Whenever business executives get together these days, the talk quickly turns to the strong dollar. Says Peter Peterson, former chairman of Wall Street's Lehman Bros. and Commerce Secretary during the Nixon Administration: "I am on five company boards, and on four of them there is much more discussion about the dollar than ever before." Peterson, who was a guest at the meeting of TIME's Board of Economists, called for quick action to stop the rise of the dollar and help American exporters. His program...
...funded locally. Federal grants to states and cities took root in the 1960s largely as Democratic programs aimed at particular problems, including health, nutrition, housing and jobs. Funds were earmarked for very specific purposes, and Washington set standards that had to be met to get the money. Richard Nixon instituted general revenue sharing in 1972; by next October $78.6 billion will have gone out to cities, counties and states. The rationale was mainly to give cities with impoverished property-tax bases a chance to provide local services comparable to more stable communities. Argues New Hampshire's Republican Governor John Sununu...