Word: nixon
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...refusing the subpoena, Clinton's lawyers also expressed their view that the meeting notes were protected by "executive privilege," a legal argument first advanced, unsuccessfully, by President Nixon during the congressional Watergate investigation. Executive privilege argues that releasing the information would interfere with the ability of a president to do his job. TIME's Adam Cohen says the courts have made few decisions about the legality of this doctrine: "The irony here is that President Clinton is invoking this privilege, since it's the Democrats and Liberals who have traditionally been skeptical of executive privilege. And there is something troubling...
Meselson has also done work in public policy, applying the problems of science to warfare and international security. His work earned him a place on the notorious Nixon "enemies" list, along with then-Harvard president Derek...
...miss the femininity of Cello--four women (Maria Kitsopoulos, Laura Bontrager, Maureen McDermott and Caryl Paisner) and four cellos, with an eclectic, smoothly performed repertoire that ranges from John Adams' Nixon in China to Miles Davis' So What. For its first album, released in 1990 by Pro Arte, the group (with slightly different membership) posed in black cocktail dresses, an image the quartet now wants to downplay. "We were not happy with that picture," says Paisner, who founded the group in 1988. "We thought it was a little too sexy, although it succeeded in getting attention. But people were inclined...
...mordantly juvenile ditty circulating in Nelson Rockefeller's campaign headquarters in 1968 insulted every hopeful in sight: "Scranton's a sissy,/ Nixon's a prick./ Romney's a moron,/ Goldwater's sick./ Nelson's your best man,/ Able and quick./ But who is our candidate?/ Upright Dick!" After Nixon's Inauguration, even the Washington Post's cartoonist Herblock gave him a shave (erasing the famously sinister Milhousian stubble shadow). Whatever else Nixon may have become in the years before his forced retirement, he was deemed for an instant to be presidential. Every President, including Bill Clinton, has a hard fight...
...political blunder sure to provoke nostalgia for the Nixon Administration: the Wall Street Journal reported that Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary hired a Washington firm to investigate reporters and news organizations in an effort to determine the sources of negative stories about the department. Though O'Leary got a stern rebuke from the White House, it decided she could stay at her post...