Word: nixon
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...case of first impression, meaning that the courts have never before been asked to rule on the essential question: Does presidential immunity extend to conduct allegedly undertaken before a Chief Executive assumes office? Bennett will assert that the logic applied by the Supreme Court in its 1982 ruling in Nixon v. Fitzgerald should apply here as well. (After telling Congress that cost overruns on the C-5A transport plane could reach $2 billion, Ernest Fitzgerald, an Air Force management analyst, was fired. President Nixon took responsibility for his dismissal, and Fitzgerald sued Nixon for damages.) In Fitzgerald, the court held...
Blackmun, appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard M. Nixon in 1970, may be most noted for writing the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1972 case that legalized abortion...
...Although Nixon appointed Blackmun because the thought the justice would bolster the Court's conserving wing, Blackmun eventually came to be considered perhaps the court's staunchest liberal...
...outstanding collection might, of course, need to be trashed to make room for the complete William F. Buckley papers and all of the those Rush Limbaugh transcripts, but so be it. Conservatives could even wrest the Agassiz. Theatre from the drama club to stage wistful re-enactments of the Nixon years...
...United States Government deeply appreciates Harvard's making Professor Kissinger available for his extremely successful mission to South Vietnam," the letter read. Henry L. Kissinger '50 served as a foreign policy consultant to the government in 1969, and later he became president Richard M. Nixon's secretary of state...