Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers and Nixon's coming. We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming. Four dead in Ohio...
...Nixon damned the dead, by saying, "When dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy." But the students killed weren't pitching stones, and three weren't even protesting. They were just passing through. If it were any other day, they might have walked right past it without noticing it was there, as I first...
...pattern of austerity was the reign of Chairman Arthur Burns. Despite his reputation as an inflation fighter, Burns sometimes sanctioned stimulative policies. Part of his motivation seems, in Greider's view, to have been political, especially when the chairman expanded the money supply rapidly during Richard Nixon's re-election campaign...
...revolting curried tuna casserole), to Ronald Reagan (hamburger soup, roast-beef hash and, in more sophisticated moments, the Italian veal-shank dish called osso buco). Haller presents some macabre juxtapositions of historic events with personal reminiscences. To get through his difficult final hours in the White House, Richard Nixon requested a breakfast more substantial than his usual wheat germ and coffee. Haller rustled up corned-beef hash with a poached egg. Nixon ate it in his favorite Lincoln Sitting Room, then signed the resignation handed to him by Alexander Haig...
Congress and the White House agree on a shaky deficit- reduction plan that includes tax hikes and spending cuts but few specifics. -- A confidential memo reveals Richard Nixon' s discreet mediation between Moscow and Washington. -- Mayor Edward Koch has lost his golden touch in troubled New York City. -- Democratic Candidate Richard Gephardt is a young man in a hurry...