Word: nixon
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Bush has seldom been without a safety net. When he gave up his congressional / seat in 1970 in an unsuccessful bid for the Senate, Nixon made him U.N. Ambassador. Other appointments followed: the Republican National Committee in 1973, liaison to China in 1974 and director of the CIA in 1976. In fact, it was Dole who had to move aside as chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1973 to make room for Bush...
...Richard Nixon was on the national ticket five times and not enough reporting was done about what sort of character the man had. [It] later shaped how he behaved in the White House," says Fouhy, who travelled with Nixon on his state visits abroad...
...months it has been apparent that Moscow wants to quit a war that has claimed as many as 30,000 Soviet and more than 1 million Afghan lives, and sent at least 3 million Afghans fleeing to Pakistan and Iran. But Gorbachev's unstated goal -- strikingly similar to the Nixon Administration's declared policy in Viet Nam -- seems to be two-pronged: not merely to pull out Soviet troops but also to prolong the life of the Soviet-installed government of Najibullah, also known as Najib, the former secret police chief who took power...
...tanned, he's rested, he's ready: Nixon in '88. Those T-shirt people were on to something. Nixon is back, this time as a political analyst for the London Sunday Times and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Some of the pronouncements from his first column: Dole ran a "determined, effective campaign" in Iowa, but "Bush is still the man to beat." Kemp is "building ^ a powerful case for the second spot on the ticket." Most curious is his prescription for the Democrats in the likely event of a deadlocked convention. Cuomo probably won't run, Nixon says, because...
...Vincent Barabba, former director of the Census Bureau under the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations says that adjusting undercounted groups is generally advisable--at least for future censuses...