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Prompted with "Denver," Boswell unfailingly responds, "Colorado." Asked to name a city in Colorado, however, he goes blank. Similarly, Boswell recognizes the category "horse" but cannot supply the example "Appaloosa." He knows "U.S. President" but not Harry Truman or Richard Nixon. Somewhere in his brain, the data may still exist, but he can no longer get at them. The reason, argue the Damasios, is that he has lost essential "convergence zones," mental switching stations that provide access to the information and relate it to other relevant data...
Well, what is a hero? When finally released with other POWS in 1973, McCain was welcomed home, all right (he leaned forward on his crutches and thanked Richard Nixon for everything including the Christmas bombing that had rained all around the "Hanoi Hilton" while he was a guest there), but McCain's was not a feel-good denouement. A rotten script. One of the lessons of Vietnam was that political context counts--that it may, in fact, be everything. Boys who went off to Vietnam with John Wayne movies screening in their minds returned to Deer Hunter America...
TIME Diplomatic correspondent Dean Fischer says the Chinese are already incensed over efforts by Gingrich and other high-profile Republicans to recognize Taiwan as a free country -- a blunt assault on the fundamental "one China" policy that dates from President Nixon's historic 1972 trip to that country, and recognizes the People's Republic of China as the sole representative of the Chinese people. Making matters worse, Fischer says, was President Clinton's decision to grant a visa in May for a private visit by Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui, which "provoked a diplomatic crisis between the two countries that...
...hottest young Governors in the nation, and Burger was floor manager for Stassen's unsuccessful run for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination. Dwight D. Eisenhower's men noticed Burger and brought him to Washington after Ike's election in 1952. Burger was surprised and somewhat mystified when Richard Nixon plucked him off the appeals court to be Chief Justice. "I hardly knew Nixon," Burger marveled at the time. "I had not seen him for months until a few minutes before we went to the announcement of my nomination.'' That Burger was never captured by Nixon was demonstrated five years later...
Burger was in many ways a walking contradiction, a gregarious loner. He showed up at social events all over the capital, but he had few intimates. When Nixon named another Minnesotan, Harry A. Blackmun, to the high court and Blackmun wondered whether he was up to the job, Burger thundered, "Of course you are. Harry, you and I have been preparing all of our lives for these jobs. We are as good as the rest of them...