Word: nixon
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...President is to get beyond the Iran scandal, he will have to concentrate on the second half of the remedy suggested to him last fall by Richard Nixon: fire two or three more people involved, and then change the subject. As televised congressional hearings on Iranscam get under way next month and Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh prepares possible indictments against former White House officials, the Administration could be hard pressed to find a subject that will compete for the public's attention. An arms treaty with the Soviet Union, signed at a summit conference in the U.S. with Gorbachev, undoubtedly...
Have you heard? There's a Belgian beer that makes you impotent, the Chinese once caught President Nixon pocketing a priceless teacup, and dim-witted ecologists are renting airplanes to drop poisonous snakes on the forests of France...
Hearsay can bring psychic benefits to speaker and listener alike. A case in point is the false teacup story about President Nixon, which Kapferer says was spread by the official Chinese press. Instead of challenging the President, so the story goes, authorities arranged to have a performing magician pull the cup out of Nixon's briefcase and replace it with a cheap imitation. Kapferer thinks this rumor offered folk wisdom on how to deal with foreigners. "It showed the essential traits of the image the Chinese have of themselves," he explains, "the final victory of the resourceful Chinese over...
There is more to running the flagship of democracy than just knowing how to style one's hair, of course. Other grooming habits are equally important. A presidential candidate may not wipe his nose with his hand, for example, especially on television. Richard Nixon did not wipe his nose with his hand during his famous Checkers speech. He immediately gained widespread support...
Reagan and Baker are not ideological twins. Indeed, Baker is a political moderate who is likely to come under attack from conservative hard-liners, particularly for his call for a solid arms-control agreement with the Soviets. In fact, Baker was Nixon's personal favorite among Republican contenders for the '88 race; the former President felt Baker would restore "hardheaded detente" to U.S.-Soviet relations. As Senate minority leader in 1978, Baker earned the enmity of the right, including Ronald Reagan, for supporting the treaties ceding U.S. control over the Panama Canal. As majority leader during Reagan's first term...