Word: nixon
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...taking a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug from him. Jimmy Carter defended his Budget Director and crony, Bert Lance, until Lance quit under charges that he had permitted relatives to overdraw their accounts in a bank he had headed. And then, of course, there were Richard Nixon's Watergate transgressions...
Many people heard Johnson in private yearn to sit down and talk over the world with China's Mao Tse-tung. L.B.J. did not raise the idea publicly or make it his doctrine. Richard Nixon did, and is credited with the most creative diplomatic idea...
...which he prepared in the U.S. Military Academy at West Point: Viet Nam, where he served as a battalion and brigade commander; as the indispensable aide-de-camp to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger; as White House Chief of Staff during the climax of Watergate; and, after Richard Nixon's presidency fell, as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, with the rank of four-star general. But it was during his tenure as Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State that Haig found himself most embattled. From his stormy confirmation hearings it January 1981 until his resignation not quite 18 months later...
...White House officials saying that Vice President Bush would be in charge of a new structure for national-security crisis management. To place a Vice President in charge of crisis management would be a departure, but the vice presidency can be almost anything the President wants it to be. Nixon, who literally "learned" the presidency in eight years under Eisenhower, isolated Spiro Agnew as if he were a bacillus. In at least one White House meeting that I attended, President Johnson allotted the loquacious Hubert Humphrey five minutes in which to speak ("Five minutes, Hubert!"); then Johnson stood by, eyes...
...take on and see to completion any work that will take more than a few days or a few weeks," he complains. "I have spent God knows how many unproductive hours asking myself if I was really put on this earth to write about the likes of Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy." A bit too harsh a verdict; but then Rovere did not come to writing easily. He flunked the first grade in his Brooklyn elementary school, was diagnosed a slow learner and never thought about making words his life's work until a high school football injury gave...