Word: nixon
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...returns to a career in public policy that began in the U.S. Information Agency under the Eisenhower Administration. Despite his Republican political views, he served in various government agencies during the Presidencies of John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson as well as that of Richard M. Nixon...
STOCKMAN CRAWLED up to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then a Nixon cabinet member, becoming first his babysitter and then his intellectual disciple. Stockman read everything Moynihan wrote, including his private files, and used the Moynihans to get into a seminar journalist David Broder was teaching, who in turn connected Stockman to the John Anderson team in Washington...
Simon, who served as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Nixon, and his Wesray partner Raymond Chambers have put together 20 acquisitions over the past 5 1/2 years. In the Avis deal, Simon apparently outbid none other than Warren Avis. The Avis founder sold control of his company in 1954 but recently offered to buy it back...
Staunch support of anti-Communists is a campaign centerpiece for Bruce Herschensohn, 53, an acerbic and deeply conservative commentator for the ABC television station in Los Angeles. Herschensohn's foreign policy acumen is often praised, lately by former President Nixon, who starred at a fund raiser for him in Newport Beach. Herschensohn commands the allegiance of many hawkish Republicans, but G.O.P. pros fear that he is the sort of somewhat scary hard-liner whom the incumbent Cranston has trounced in three straight Senate elections...
Many in Thatcher's own Tory Party were equally unsympathetic, particularly former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath, who pointed out that he had refused President Richard Nixon's request to use British bases for U.S. aircraft resupplying Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Even some members of Thatcher's Cabinet privately opposed her decision, though all supported it publicly...