Word: nixon
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Ever since the televised Kennedy-Nixon debates gave voters a sense of personal access to the candidates, charisma and charm have tended to overshadow all but the most transcendent election issues. But in an era of peace and at least a veneer of prosperity, the 1988 campaign has so far been dominated by slogans and sound bites masquerading as substance. Small wonder that, after two terms of aw-shucks Reaganism, the electorate seems to be measuring Bush and Dukakis by the same standards they assess Bill Cosby -- comfort and likability...
...Michael S. Dukakis yesterday compared George Bush's campaign to the Watergate scandal of Richard Nixon, saying "truth was the first casualty" in both instances. Bush received new police endorsements along with the badge of a slain officer in New York...
...Truth was the first casualty in the Nixon White House and it was the first casualty in the Bush campaign," Dukakis said. "Above all, the truth should matter a lot in a presidential campaign because as we learned in Watergate, it matters a lot in the Oval Office...
...Powers Act was a kneejerk response by Congress to the unilateral decisions of Presidents Johnson and Nixon to involve the U.S. military in Vietnam. The Congress was only involved to a limited extent--passing the Gulf of Tonkin resolution which helped legitimize Johnson's and Nixon's actions as constitutional. For the most part, though, the legislature had no effect on presidential initiatives...
...Nixon vetoed the bill, calling it unconstitutional, but Congress overrode the veto. Every president since--Democrat and Republican--has called the act an unconstitutional limit on the power of the executive. And yet, every president has obeyed the law by keeping Congress, or at least individual members of Congress, informed of the nation's military position...