Word: nixon
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...bill would also cutback on the availability of student loans and permit taxation of fringe benefit loans to professors, said Nancy F Nixon. Harvard's director of governmental relations...
...bill, the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984, is now before the Senate, while a similar bill without the educational clauses will probably reach the House floor this week according to Nixon...
Back in 1973, when the press was under attack by the Nixon Administration, a group of journalists and laymen met to decide how best to counter the criticism. They set up a National News Council to investigate and judge specific complaints about news coverage. Objections arose: editors feared that unfavorable verdicts might provoke libel suits; broadcasters did not want any prejudging of matters that might come before the Federal Communications Commission. So anyone filing a complaint had to agree not to sue for libel or take his case to the FCC later. If the council censured a newspaper, that paper...
...Klein began to chip away at the wall built during the McCarthy era which segregated, or some would say protected, American society from communists. They did not find what they expected--malicious communist spies in long trench coats, or "Rats," as they were described by Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. But they did find Americans they could emulate. With archival films and the clippings of more than 400 interviews, Riechert and Klein creatively reconstructed their discoveries in the Academy-Award nominated documentary Seeing Red, an intellectually stimulating and compassionate portrayal of American communists...
...true that Nixon chose not to avail himself of the impeachment process, but there were reasons for that beyond the shrill quality of public discourse that made a fair trial moot. Not all of those reasons, which included an unselfish belief that the country would be sundered politically, economically and emotionally by a protracted impeachment process, redound to Nixon's discredit...