Word: nixon
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...hour flight between St. Louis and San Francisco. The trio of wise men were two former Carter Administration officials?David Aaron, a deputy to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Walter Slocombe, a onetime Defense Department official?and Barry Carter, who was an aide to Henry Kissinger on President Nixon's National Security Council...
...international outlaws with whom civilized nations could not do business and who vowed to re-establish American superiority over the U.S.S.R. The Reagan of Sunday night explicitly disavowed the quest for superiority and talked much more like a traditionalist who believed in building on the foundations laid by Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and, yes, Jimmy Carter...
HENRY KISSINGER, Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford...
Televised debates began only in 1960, when John Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off, and then there were no more in a presidential race for 16 years. But the current campaign is the third in a row in which the contenders have confronted each other on-camera, and in a sped-up age, three repetitions acquire the force of tradition. Ronald Reagan strengthened that tradition by breaking the informal taboo against an incumbent President's agreeing to debate when he enjoys a long lead. Reagan thus set a precedent that future incumbents may defy only at the peril...
...presidential campaigns? On that question, there is no agreement at all. The cases for and against debates begin with recognition of a simple fact: they are among the most popular programs television has ever put on. An average of 77 million people watched some portion of the four Kennedy-Nixon debates; the three Carter-Ford match-ups drew an average audience of 85 million. In 1980, 120 million took in at least part of the single Reagan-Carter debate. Preliminary estimates of the number who tuned in to the first Reagan-Mondale face-off are considerably lower, ranging from...