Word: nixon
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...Lewis is the first athlete. Other double exposures in a fortnight: Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Spiro Agnew, Henry Kissinger, John Dean, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan...
...this respect, Ferraro seemed at least as success ful as a previous vice-presidential candidate in a bind. Eight presidential elections ago, a young Republican Senator named Richard Nixon went on TV to justify his receipt of political donations ? and of a cocker spaniel named Checkers. Nixon, of course, faced only the camera, not 200 reporters, and he had a script. With Ferraro, every thing is different, special, more consequential. The stakes are higher because whatever happens to Ferraro happens to a pioneer, a historic figure. Mondale edged close to a complaint about the intense public focus last week...
Even before he arrived in Dallas at midweek from Washington, it was clear that Reagan bestrode his party like few candidates before him. Not since 1972, when Richard Nixon faced George McGovern, had G.O.P. strategists been more confident of reviving what Kansas Senator Robert Dole called "an old and honored tradition, the two-term presidency." Not since Dwight Eisenhower's second campaign for the White House in 1956 could the Republicans offer a more salable candidate. Polls are showing Reagan at the peak of his popularity with American voters; they are also documenting signs of new national feelings...
...Among those on the advisory board for the study: Peter Peterson, former chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb; Herbert Stein, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon; Economist Robert Solow of M.I.T.; Eleanor Holmes Norton, former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during the Carter Administration...
...pump up a slack economy. Johnson later balked at the pleas of his Keynesian advisers to pay for the Viet Nam War with higher taxes in order to keep the economy from overheating and pushing up prices. Nonetheless, so prestigious had Keynes' views become that even Republican President Nixon could declare in 1971, "I am now a Keynesian...