Word: nixon
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...when Fran Meaney left another candidate's campaign to help Dukakis. The first break in this code came in 1969 after Dukakis had agreed to run for attorney general against Elliot Richardson while Beryl Cohen, an ally from his high school days, would run for Lieutenant Governor. When Nixon took Richardson to Washington, the legislature filled the attorney general's post with a Democrat, and Dukakis had no clear shot at the office. So he switched, and took aim at Cohen's slot, the lieutenant governorship. Dukakis felt or feigned surprise that Cohen would take this departure from the game...
...Democrat, I'm a Democrat," Eddinger says. "I voted a split ticket once, and I haven't felt too happy about it." Looking embarrassed, Eddinger admits to having cast a ballot for Richard M. Nixon...
...along their border. After nearly two decades of recurring tensions, trade has broken out across that 4,500-mile frontier -- a commercial boom that may be a prelude to a new rapprochement between the two Communist giants. The U.S. is following these developments with considerable interest. Ever since Richard Nixon made his historic opening to China in the wake of the 1969 border fighting, the American "strategic partnership" with China has been rooted largely in a shared antagonism toward the Soviet Union...
Under Howard Deutch's languid direction, Candy performs the slow burn of a put-upon Mr. Middle America, and Aykroyd perfects his impression (first exhibited in the 1981 film Neighbors) of Richard Nixon as a used-car salesman. It would be nice if these acute comics had achieved the intimate hostility of cousins who rasp on each other's nerves. But Hughes cannot be bothered here with surprise or subtlety, so his antagonists have the fatigued familiarity of sitcom characters toward the end of a long run. Next time, Hughes might consider a longer gestation period for his script...
Bush sounded like he was more than ready,telling NBC in an interview, "the differences areenormous" between himself and Dukakis. "It will belike the McGovern-Nixon race in '72 in terms ofthe breadth of differences on these issues," hesaid. Nixon won that race in a landslide...