Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Starting in two weeks, the first students accepted by Liddy's new Academy of Corporate Security and Private Investigation will be able to study how to prevent third-rate burglaries and other offenses against their employers. For $2,700, participants in the three-week course, designed by the former Nixon aide who served 52 months in federal prison for his role in the Watergate break-in, will learn surveillance techniques on the streets of Miami, familiarize themselves with weapons on a nearby firing range, and practice defensive driving and counterterrorism in locations that the school refuses to name "for security...
...most obvious reason for Reagan's popularity is the relative success of his presidency and the grace with which he has accomplished it. Lyndon Johnson was terrible in success, contemptuous of his adversaries, delighted with his own genius. Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter could be irritating and bizarre in other ways. Reagan likes success, but is wary of it. He accepts the praise, ducks his head, winks, and moves on. Reagan has reasserted the force of individual leadership. Americans heard for years that the presidency had grown too complex for one person to manage, that the office had been crippled...
Reagan's predecessors were just as profoundly and regionally American, of course: Johnson the Texan, Nixon from Whittier, Calif., Carter from south Georgia. But their pasts were all shadowed, in different ways, by an obscure sense of biographical hurt. Reagan's father was an improvident alcoholic in Dixon, Ill., and yet Reagan's mythic hometown America is a glorious place. Reagan communicates a bright and triumphant American past...
...with a large Cleveland law firm, where he expertly juggled a wide variety of cases. He left to take a job teaching at the University of Virginia Law School. In 1971 he became general counsel of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy, where he resisted the attempts of Nixon aides to tamper politically with public television and began to develop his academic specialty, the rather arcane field of administrative law. After several years in the Justice Department, Scalia went back to teaching in 1977, at the University of Chicago Law School. Scalia's high-profile, high-octane conservatism made...
...Wilfrid Nixon, 26, a Cambridge Ph.D. in engineering, is a research assistant professor at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. Says Nixon: "I was looking for opportunities in England, but essentially there was nothing doing...