Word: nixon
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...succeeded. A Navy vice admiral still on active duty, Poindexter, 49, sees his role in a limited way: as a staff officer, skillfully condensing the arguments of the quarreling Cabinet secretaries and their underlings, then presenting the various action options to the President. Unlike Henry Kissinger under Nixon and Ford and, to a slightly lesser degree, Zbigniew Brzezinski under Carter, Poindexter does not consider himself a virtual foreign-policy czar. He has neither the desire nor the personality to pressure other high officials into agreement. Instead, by avoiding the limelight, Poindexter believes he can effectively work out compromises among...
...heard it all. Abigail Adams flapping out her wash; the tramp of British troops setting fire to the place; cheers for Ulysses Grant, brought from the West to win the war; the shouts of Teddy Roosevelt's rambunctious kids; Truman's political cronies, with ample bourbon, bellowing their fealty; Nixon's house evangelists heaving and praying in the midst of Watergate. Conniving diplomats have come there, as well as big-time pols and heavy moneymen, all summoned for the payoff of a lunch or dinner at the very headwaters of U.S. history...
Former President Richard Nixon spent last week in Moscow on what his aide John Taylor described as a "private, fact-finding" mission. It was Nixon's sixth visit to the Soviet capital and his first since a 1974 summit with Leonid Brezhnev, just a month before Nixon resigned the presidency. Since he is the only U.S. President ever to visit the Kremlin, some diplomats speculated that Nixon might be helping to pave the way for a U.S.-Soviet summit. Others attributed the trip to Nixon's continuing campaign to build his image as a senior statesman...
...Although Nixon spoke with Ronald Reagan before he left the U.S., he was not carrying a message from the President. While in Moscow, he stayed in a government guesthouse and met with Party Chief Mikhail Gorbachev, President Andrei Gromyko and Central Committee Secretary Anatoly Dobrynin...
...Wright in Dayton for about $10,000. The price of the 747s, which ultimately will come close to $300 < million including crew training, support units and spare parts, is gargantuan even when compared with the famous Boeing 707s introduced by Ike and raised to sad splendor by Kennedy and Nixon. A pair cost about $15 million...