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More career reversals than Nixon -- now he's back on network...
...South Vietnam, a Viet Cong offensive along the Cambodian border marks the end of a two-month lull in fighting and delays President Nixon's decision on further U.S. troop withdrawals...
What can the White House expect from the new Whitewater independent counsel? As a Baptist minister's son growing up in San Antonio, Texas, Kenneth Starr admired Richard Nixon. "I really identified with Nixon because of his rather humble roots," Starr has said. Today, as a 48-year-old lawyer and veteran of the Reagan and Bush Administrations, he speaks wishfully of Dan Quayle's political future. "If President Quayle asked me to become the solicitor general again, I'd do it," he told TIME in a recent interview. His appointment has Republicans cheering and Democrats worried. Republican Congressman...
...Nixon's hands-on role in the cover-up of that crime is amply documented, both in the recollections of his chief aides and in excerpts from the White House tapes. He orders the CIA to thwart the FBI's investigation of the break- in, discusses paying hush money to the Watergate burglars, devises ever more outlandish stratagems to avoid turning over the incriminating tapes. For nutty nostalgia, can anything beat the unforgettable Stennis gambit? As a compromise, Nixon proposed that only one person be allowed to listen to the tapes -- John Stennis, a conservative 72-year-old Senator from...
Twenty years ago today, Richard Nixon dodged the bullet of impeachment by resigning as president of the United States. The Watergate scandal that caused his political demise began to unravel with news reports of burglary in 1972 at Democratic Party headquarters. It became clear that Richard Nixon had played a key role in covering up the crime. During the last decade, Nixon worked hard to rehabilitate his reputation. But upon his death earlier this year he was remembered widely as the only president to step down before his term of office expired...