Word: nixon
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...presidential candidate at a national political convention (in 1964, when she was swept aside by the Goldwater rush). She showed a prickly independence that often put her at odds with more doctrinaire members of her party. She backed F.D.R.'s New Deal legislation, opposed two of Richard Nixon's Supreme Court nominees and was a withering early critic of her red-hunting colleague Joseph McCarthy...
...more than 20 years, is now the focus of a diplomatic poker game between Havana and Washington. Last week, Cuban officials quietly notified American officials that they had detained the rogue financier, who fled the U.S. during the Watergate scandals amid charges of massive embezzlement and bribing the Nixon re-election campaign. (A major drug trafficking indictment came later.) Clinton Administration officials, wary of Cuban motives, today said they were interested in Vesco's extradition -- but not, as Havana has hinted, atthe price of warming U.S. relations with Cuba. Douglas Waller, TIME national security correspondent, says the State Department...
...Nixon administration had sunk to its lowest point as far as student demonstrators were concerned. The year before, administration had promised to "bring us together" and "lower our voices," Rather and Gates write. But now, it was the vilified enemy...
National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger was meeting secretly with Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam in Paris. In October, Nixon proposed a "standstill cease fire" and offered a proposal to the North Vietnamese for mutual withdrawal. In three years, the last American troops would leave South Vietnam...
...terms of this goal, the successes and eventhe failures of the movement seem unfortunatelylimited," Friedman wrote in a 1970 yearbook essay."Nixon is still planning the patterns for thenation, and his pattern does not seem to beleading to peace. Maybe the entire pattern needschanging...