Word: nixon
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...there? That is the question that continues to intrigue Presidents. Are these Soviets really heartless or are they so intimidated by the system that they cannot act human? Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believed they had found at least an auricle of Leonid Brezhnev, and detente followed. Jimmy Carter, who hand-penned some notes to Brezhnev, even thought the replies were special-until the Soviets invaded Afghanistan...
...David McClintick's 1982 Hollywood exposé Indecent Exposure, and Don Kowet's A Matter of Honor, an investigation, published this spring, of a CBS documentary about General William Westmoreland. Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein used unnamed sources to reconstruct scenes inside the Nixon White House in The Final Days. For Woodward's Wired, however, about Comedian John Belushi, he named sources section by section...
...particularly dog-eared. Gromyko's repeated references to those speeches underscored the degree to which the U.S. President's slaps at Soviet power and prestige have stirred anger and animosity in Moscow. Few Soviet officials like to be reminded that they once considered Reagan a potential "closet" Nixon who might correct the foreign policy zigzags of the Carter Administration and return to something like détente...
...SALT: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, negotiations that began early in the "Nixon Administration, producing the 1972 SALT I treaty limiting ABMs and an interim agreement restricting offensive weapons, and ended with the 1979 SALT II treaty, signed by Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev but never ratified by the U.S. Senate...
Such numbers can be deceiving, however, because high technology has an explosive impact on other occupations. Says Jerome Rosow, an Assistant Labor Secretary under President Nixon: "It generates jobs all around like a great catalyst." In Fort Worth, which is part of the so-called Silicon Prairie computer and electronics area of northeast Texas, high tech has added fewer than 10,000 positions since 1979, but it has helped to create service opportunities for another 92,000 workers...