Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monographs like Eighty-Eight Points on Developing Public Relations. In other cities the regime appears successful at banishing books and periodicals dealing with "pornography, bourgeois liberalism and feudal superstition." Here one can buy steamy romances, political biographies of discredited leaders -- and seemingly anything ever written by or about Richard Nixon...
...lying. They may be trying for objectivity, but given the book's title, the reader is sure to conclude that Sheridan's side is the one to pick. This lack of clarity is disturbing, considering that many of the book's statements have to do with politicians like Nixon, Stalin and Lenin--that is to say, people who should not be taken at their word...
...conduct of U.S. defense and diplomacy has often been cursed by backstabbing at the highest levels of Government. The problem became both acute and chronic with Richard Nixon. He believed in keeping his underlings as suspicious of one another as he was of them, and he liked to hear the worst about people behind their backs. His National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, frequently sniped at the State Department, until Nixon put him in charge there...
...Nixon encouraged backbiting; Ford, Carter and Reagan tolerated it; George Bush won't stand for it. Shortly after his Inauguration, he distributed a list of commandments. "Be frank," reads one. "Fight hard for your position," is the next. Then: "When I make the call, we move as a team...
Bush generally feels more at home with foreign policy than with domestic issues. Little wonder: in serving as U.N. Ambassador, American envoy to China, CIA director and funeral-hopping Vice President, he amassed a detailed personal knowledge of world leaders. Like Nixon, Bush has a habit of adding intimate footnotes when intelligence briefers provide him with thumbnail biographies of figures making news overseas. "That guy isn't like that at all," he told an analyst who was profiling a foreign politician. "He goes back a long way with some of these cats," a senior official recounted. Two weeks...