Word: nixon
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...rule, sitting Presidents do not like debates, realizing that the challenger gets a boost simply by being elevated to the same stage. Richard Nixon, a quasi-incumbent in 1960 by virtue of his two terms as Vice President, took a drubbing in his first debate with John Kennedy and may have lost the election as a result. Sitting on big leads, Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Nixon in 1972 never came close to debating their opponents. Gerald Ford in 1976 and Jimmy Carter in 1980 were willing to take the chance because they were locked in tight races...
...General Revenue Sharing, first enacted in 1972 with the support of President Richard Nixon, which provides $4.6 billion each year to local governments to use to meet local priorities. GRS was to ease the burden on the property...
Bipartisan stands by mayors against federal action contrary to the interest of cities are not unprecedented. Mayors of both parties stood together to challenge proposals of Presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon and Carter. In 1965, the U.S. Conference of Mayors expressed opposition to President Johnson's proposal to move water pollution programs from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, where mayors were pleased with its administration, to the Interior Department, where its urban orientation might be lost. The President called Mayor Daley, Chicago's powerful political leader, and asked him to tell me, the lobbyist for the nation...
...Experience, For Currier." Second place, for pushing Our Boys In Uniform in a Harvard Context, to the Leverett House candidate whose face fills in for Uncle Sam in a remake of the famous World War II "I Want You" recruiting poster. This candidate also snags the Richard M. Nixon Zealous Reelection Campaign Effort Award. His poster, according to a note on the bottom, is "paid for by the Leverett House Committee to Re-elect...
...pompadour and neck wrinkles but also a long upper lip that Conrad calls Irish, almost horsy. Peters at an earlier stage emphasized the wrinkles but "got tired of drawing 400 lines" and discovered "you can put a pompadour on anything and it becomes Reagan." Herblock established the memorable Nixon look-furtive, hunched over, 5 o'clock shadow-but goes easier on his present adversary: Reagan is a "pretty good-looking guy." As cartoonists, they all seem grateful for the mobility in Reagan's face. Mike Peters currently sees Reagan as a "Cheshire cat-he's there...