Word: nixon
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THERE HAVE been 11 summits since September 1959, when President Eisenhower and Nikita S. Khrushchev held a Camp David chat. Since, a few summits have centered on the signing of pre-arranged agreements, which conveniently leave summiteers nothing to discuss. In 1972, for instance, Nixon and Brezhnev signed the ABM treaty and in 1979 Carter and Brezhnev agreed to SALT II. Other summits, in 1959, 1967 and 1985, have not centered on anything...
...Cook County machine is one of the most famous in the nation. It was in Cook County that John F. Kennedy received the votes to take the state of Illinois from Richard M. Nixon. At the time the machine was run by the famed Richard Daley...
When Bork was appointed by Richard Nixon as Solicitor General in 1973, the Indiana Law Review article prompted widespread fears that the office was about to be hopelessly politicized. After only five weeks on the job, he was called to the White House by Nixon Aide Alexander Haig and asked to run the President's Watergate defense. After some indecision, Bork ultimately maneuvered his way out, in part because Nixon refused to let him listen to the White House tapes. Three months later came the Saturday Night Massacre. Bork's name became a household word overnight when, as acting Attorney...
Ironically, the remainder of Bork's four-year tenure at Justice could prove his biggest asset. Career and political appointees alike credit Bork with helping to restore morale at the shaken department. Despite antibusing sentiment in both the Nixon and Ford administrations, for example, Bork pointedly refused to oppose a controversial Boston school-desegregation order. "He was the epitome of an open-minded, principled lawyer," says A. Raymond Randolph, then a Bork aide, "the exact opposite of a rigid ideologue...
...Richard Nixon is called to account not only for Watergate but also for being a bad poker player: "Any guy who hollers over a $40 pot has no business being President." Nixon is portrayed, above all, as a man of unhinged crudity. O'Neill tells of sitting with Congressman Peter Rodino during the impeachment hearings and listening to a White House tape that enraged the Judiciary Committee chairman. Writes O'Neill: "The President was talking to John Ehrlichman about the Italians. 'They're not like us,' said Nixon. 'They smell different, they look different, they act different. The trouble...