Word: nixon
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Republican hostility towards the Public Broadcasting system is hardly new; both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan's attempts to cripple it were thwarted by Congress in the '70s and '80s. And two years ago, Senator Bob Dole (R-Kan.) temporarily blocked funds to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, claiming that its programs had "a liberal bias...
Liddy, Magruder, Dean and the rest were back, 20 years older, to tell what they knew and when they knew it. The BBC interviewers elicited candor, several fresh revelations and, in five compelling hours, a definitive account of the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon's presidency...
...median household income of $47,774, Orange is the fifth largest county in the U.S. and boasted the fourth richest county government before the crisis. As famed for its political conservatism as for Disneyland and aerospace giants like McDonnell Douglas, Orange County was the birthplace of Richard Nixon and gave Ronald Reagan the largest margin of victory of any U.S. county in his presidential races. "It's incredible, really," says Mark Baldassare, a sociologist at the University of California at Irvine. "How do you explain that one of the wealthiest counties in the nation is now bankrupt...
Allen found humor useful in prison. He made the meanest guards laugh by putting pictures of Richard Nixon in the peephole of his cell when they made their rounds. Later he staged comedy shows for the other inmates. Once, while riding a bus to another prison, he managed to slip out of his handcuffs. The only thing he could think to do was bum a cigarette off the old bank robber sitting in front of him. "I reached into his shirt pocket with the handcuff on one hand, and then tapped him on his other shoulder to get a match...
...Stanley Pottinger: in 1974 he was a Nixon Administration lawyer. He eventually retired from public service and worked in investment banking and real estate, suffering occasionally from the vicissitudes of the marketplace. His first novel, The Fourth Procedure -- a thriller -- will be published in April.) He has no plans to seek national office at this time...