Word: nixon
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Brown, who now runs a public relations and management-consulting firm in High Point, N.C., served as special assistant to President Nixon. Nonetheless, he still maintained cordial relations with Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King and Andrew Young, the former U.N. Ambassador. Brown has made several trips to South Africa, the latest in February as the leader of a fact- finding group that included black college presidents...
...Brown is the embodiment of conciliation and bridge building," says an Administration official who knows him well. "He's close to Jesse Jackson -- and Richard Nixon." Brown's special ability to make friends across seemingly impenetrable political barriers has made him a particularly appealing choice for South Africa. His race is also a plus, as far as the Administration is concerned. Appointing a black to the highest American position in Pretoria cannot help sending a message to South Africa's apartheid government, as well as to its black majority...
...incident involved a presidential tape and former Nixon Counsel and Convicted Watergate Conspirator Chuck Colson. This time, though, the President was Jimmy Carter, the tape was a carpenter's measurer, and the locale was a four-unit apartment building under construction in Chicago. Both men were participating in a project of Habitat for Humanity, a Georgia-based outfit that builds homes for the poor. Carter has done previous Habitat stints in New York City, but this was the first such outing for Colson, now a born- again Christian and founder-head of Prison Fellowship Ministries. He finds the ex-President...
Reagan took office after a long, depressive streak of American history that began with the assassination of John Kennedy and proceeded through the riots and other assassinations of the 1960s, the Viet Nam War, Watergate, Nixon's resignation, the Arab oil embargo, the Iranian hostage crisis. Jimmy Carter was apparently overwhelmed by the presidency. The Club of Rome's Spenglerian predictions about the earth's shrinking resources shadowed the '70s, and Carter at last announced that there was a malaise in the land. The drift was bleak: things would get worse and worse and never get better again. Reagan...
...people tend to trust him even if they utterly disagree with his principles. Better, perhaps, to deal with a man one trusts than to be fooled and manipulated for the best of ends. Reagan is manifestly a man at home in his own skin, in contrast to, say, Richard Nixon, in whom dark civil wars always seemed to be raging...