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Forrest Gump is nobody special, but he meets special people. In his 30-year odyssey through recent American history, this crippled Alabama lad with a 75 IQ bumps into Elvis and John Lennon, J.F.K. and L.B.J., Nixon and Mao. Forrest is an innocent on loan to a cynical world, and in the movie bearing his name he would make little sense if he were played by anyone but Tom Hanks...
...Army troops at Fort Ord. Panetta attended the University of Santa Clara for his undergraduate and law degrees and afterward joined the Army, serving in the intelligence branch. He came to Washington in 1966 as an aide to a Republican Senator and, after the 1968 election, became Richard Nixon's chief civil rights officer at the old Health, Education and Welfare Department. When Panetta aggressively sought to coerce Southern school districts into complying with court-ordered busing plans, Nixon fired him. Panetta learned of the decision when press secretary Ron Ziegler announced his departure to reporters...
Clinton may then attempt to drive the Republican party farther to the right, a strategy reminiscent of Nixon's attempt to push the Democrats farther left after the midterm elections of 1970, Ellis said...
...Forrest Gump" is the story of a young, simple boy whose life is filled with coincidental encounters with the major historical events of the last 50 years. He inspires Elvis' famous pelvic thrust, shakes the hand of many presidents (even bringing some of them to their demise--read, Richard Nixon) and finally marries the girl of his dreams. Seems too good to be true? It's Hollywood...
...after he leaves office. Clinton's attorney in the case, Robert Bennett, filed papers today in Little Rock's federal district court saying the president would make his case for special immunity by Aug. 5. The lines of argument will probably follow a Supreme Court ruling that former President Nixon could not be sued for certain actions taken while in office. The problem with presidential immunity in this case: Jones alleges she was harrassed by Clinton when he was still governor...