Word: nixon
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...comment. But, logically extended, this seems to be a difficult proposition to sustain. By this rationale for instance, if Tonya Harding refused to comment on the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, it would be irresponsible to print her name in any story related to the incident. Or, without President Nixon's comments, It was careless to name him in stories about Watergate...
...punishing the innocent majority to get at the troublesome few. Curfews in Phoenix and Miami's Dade County are under challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union. "People will gladly trade freedom for law and order," says Charles Colson, former White House counsel to Richard Nixon, who has been devoted to prison reform since he did time for his involvement in Watergate. "My worry is that the failure of current policies will increase public frustration to the point that people will go for the strong-arm answer...
Sabotaging the competition is a venerable American tradition, from la Cosa Nostra putting sugar in rivals' gas tanks, to Nixon's dirty tricks operatives harassing the McGovern campaign. Should the public, then, really be devastated when something similar, though less serious, happens in the competitive world of figure skating...
...past, I've spent a lot of time in the[Capitol] hallways," Nixon says...
Hicks says she and Nixon made Harvard's supportof the direct lending proposal "very public," andhelped to shape the debate which eventually led tothe passage of the legislation...