Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professor of Economics Hendrik S. Houthakker, former Nixon adviser...
...Cambridge, some experts have already pinpointed prime candidates for trimming. Former Nixon adviser and Lee Professor of Economics Hendrik S. Houthakker, for one, says high spending for agricultural programs and grants to state and local government could be reduced, creating a windfall to finance the deficit...
...Martin's TV Laugh-In domesticated chaos into snippets. It flashed absurdities, like vaudeville on amphetamines -- Goldie Hawn dancing in body paint, Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips. Laugh-In gave the nation "You bet your sweet bippy!" and "Sock it to me," a line that Republican Candidate Richard Nixon, among other celebrities, recited in three seconds of network time in September. (In deference to his dignity, Nixon was spared the customary dousing with a bucket of water.) The Rolling Stones snarled about the Street Fighting Man. Never before had an annus mirabilis transpired before the television cameras in Marshall...
...annus mirabilis drew to an end, President-elect Richard Nixon and his aides, John Erlichman and Bob Haldeman, were busy in a suite on the 39th floor of the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan, assembling the new Administration, a new cast of characters, Henry Kissinger, John Mitchell and the rest. The nation soon would be off on a different road, or so one imagined. It would be another four years before the U.S. withdrew from Viet Nam, and another seven years before the North Vietnamese armies would sweep south and accomplish the result that American power had sought so long...
...gassing of demonstrators brought a new term into the American lexicon -- "police riot." When the beating and rock throwing stopped, the Democratic Party lay in ruins. An alarmed Middle America turned its attention to Miami where the Republicans, unbeleaguered by the Armies of the Night, hoisted Richard Milhous Nixon toward the Presidency. The era of the Silent Majority was about to begin...