Word: nixon
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...Richard Nixon was such a leader, says Conable. Nixon sought real change in Government institutions, diplomacy and fiscal affairs. Conable became one of Nixon's most loyal House supporters, only to be profoundly disappointed when Nixon's personal flaws overwhelmed his Administration. He keeps his distance from Nixon to this...
...flaw in that presidency. "Carter conferred with God, Rosalynn and Amy and then made judgments about what was right and wrong, but he did not lead," says Conable. He was distressed when Jerry Ford did not get a second term because he felt Ford put results above personal glory. Nixon had to be moved off the national stage. Ford did it by pardoning him. Ford was then defeated...
...voters in their infinite wisdom are always right, as Sidey suggests, how does he explain their choice of Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover, Warren Harding and other disasters...
...paintings on the White House walls was switched without announcement or ceremony last month, but not because the subject was unknown. The reason is that former President Richard Nixon, 71, never did like the portrait of him by Alexander Clayton that hung for three years outside the East Room. So last January, Nixon personally commissioned Houston Painter J. Anthony Wills, 72, to produce a new likeness for $20,000. Wills, who had done Dwight Eisenhower's White House portrait and had also rendered Henry Kissinger for the State Department, went to New York City to see his subject...
MARRIED. William Colby, 64, often embattled director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Presidents Nixon and Ford; and Sally Shelton, 40, former U.S. envoy to the West Indian islands of Barbados, Grenada, Dominica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent; both for the second time; in a ceremony performed by the mayor of Venice, Italy...