Word: nixon
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...presence of former staff members from Clinton's travel office who had been fired seven months before, replaced by Clinton loyalists, and investigated by the FBI on charges of misappropriation leveled by the White House. (The charges proved baseless.) Bob Dole went so far as to draw comparisons with Nixon's "enemies list" after hearing that this one was sprinkled with influential Republicans. Could the White House be digging up dirt on old foes like Bush Secretary of State James Baker...
...negotiate with Syria but never give up the Golan Heights. He would abide by the Oslo agreements with the Palestinians but build more Jewish settlements in the West Bank. He would undertake talks on the territory's final status but not discuss Jerusalem. He would model himself on the Nixon who went to China, the Begin who met with Sadat, while his chief lieutenants include truculent extremists like Ariel Sharon, who demand Arab capitulation on Israel's terms. Israelis all call their new leader Bibi as if they know him well, but few seem sure which of those campaign promises...
...polls close, and the next five minutes crawl by. Then polling experts project a narrow victory for Peres. "It could be as close as Kennedy and Nixon in 1960," says Shaath, who at the time was studying for a doctorate at the Wharton School of Finance in Philadelphia. "I remember that one well." (Later he would become a professor at Wharton. "That was fun," he recalls. "I taught corporate finance to the kids of all those Jewish investment bankers on Wall Street...
Since the threat of cuts appears far from over, the University will continue lobbying lawmakers to protect student aid from future cutbacks, according to Nan F. Nixon, director of governmental relations...
Adam Clymer '58, the chief congressional correspondent for The New York Times, recalls speaking with Brokaw after Brokaw wrote "a good story" in 1973 about the Nixon White House...