Word: nixon
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Whether or not polls affect the outcome of elections, candidates faring poorly in polls have traditionally sought to discredit them. During the 1968 presidential campaign, when most polls showed Hubert H. Humphrey trailing Richard M. Nixon by a wide margin, Humphrey once called a press conference to change that the Gallup Poll the views of Blacks. More recently, Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King complained that he underperformed in polls that failed to include newly registered voters among those surveyed...
Shultz's disregard for the Pentagon may have stemmed partly from his personal animus toward Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. The men have been warily circling each other for years. In the Nixon Administration, Weinberger worked as deputy to Budget Director Shultz, then succeeded him. In 1975, Shultz was named president of the Bechtel Group Inc. (1982 sales: $13.6 billion), a construction and engineering firm; Weinberger followed Shultz there as a vice president. But Weinberger's service to Governor Reagan in California put him ahead of Shultz when the President picked his original Cabinet. After Shultz replaced Haig...
Sonnenfeldt expects Reagan's visit to China in April to give the Kremlin an added incentive to seek better ties with the U.S. Since Richard Nixon's trip to China in 1972, the U.S. has had more leverage with Moscow when Washington's connection with Peking was strong. But partly because of the Reagan Administration's early arms sales to Taiwan, the Sino-American leg of the triangular relationship has been shaky...
...communities have rejected the libraries on all sorts of grounds. Cambridge, Mass., effectively blocked a Kennedy library at Harvard because the city feared too much traffic. After heated debate, Duke University in North Carolina decided it did not want to erect a memorial to its law school alumnus Richard Nixon (the library is being built in San Clemente, Calif.). Nowhere have battle lines been more sharply drawn than at California's Stanford University, where after months of controversy and negotiation, the trustees last week approved a Ronald Reagan library and museum...
...recent Office of Technology Assessment study concluded "no scientific evidence exists to establish the validity of polygraph testing," with accuracy fluctuating wildly from 17 to 99 percent officials could face reassignment or demotion for refusing to take the test. Perhaps, though, accuracy is not the intent as Richard Nixon put it in the Watergate Tapes. "I don't know whether the detector tests) are accurate or not, but it doesn't make any difference. Test them all. It will scare the hell out of them...