Word: nixon
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...Dewey's young prosecutors in New York before World War II, counsel for Senate postwar investigations of Truman-era scandals. He was the young G.O.P. lawyer who won seating of Eisenhower's contested convention delegates in 1952, thereby assuring Ike the nomination. Rogers helped Nixon through the Checkers crisis, counseled the shaken Vice President when Ike had his heart attack in 1955. Rogers was Attorney General for Ike and Secretary of State for Nixon. His public career rivals almost any other living person's, but he never sought acclaim...
...Reagan Administration has already started to reverse a disastrous decision made in 1972 by the Nixon Administration to develop the shuttle as the sole vehicle for putting both humans and payloads into orbit. Instead, the U.S. will move to a mixed launch fleet including both shuttles and expendable rockets. Ten new advanced Titan 34D7 rockets are already on order, and the Air Force wants at least ten more to provide an increased launching capability beginning in 1988. Within a week or so, a National Security Council-led Interagency Group on Space is expected to recommend that NASA severely restrict...
What makes this line even funnier than it sounds is that the speaker is 17- year-old Paul Stephens (Christopher Collet); that his coconspirator, Jenny, is played by a picture of innocence named Cynthia Nixon; that the exchange takes place at a high school science fair, where the competing projects involve things like soap bubbles and gerbils--and that they really do have an A-bomb in her auto...
...Kennedy-Nixon race started the class thinking about real problems, says Bloom. "Up to that point we didn't talk of world issues. "We were placid and dormant," Bloom says. Kennedy changed that...
...Mississippi to investigatethe murders of three civil rights activists, whichhelped galvanize a growing national indignationabout abuses of Black civil rights. Lenzner wenton to head the national legal service program forthe poor, worked on the special Senate committeeinvestigating Watergate, and drafted the subpoenademanding the Watergate tapes from PresidentRichard M. Nixon...