Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rose's good-behavior voucher from doing prison time for tax evasion fetched $770. "I know it's a little twisted," said executive Andy Gross, the winning bidder. "But this little conversation piece will have cult value. I could display it next to the Gerald Ford letter pardoning Richard Nixon, which I own, in my new Hall of Guilt...
Perhaps the best way to explain Antonio Pagan is to remember that it took Richard Nixon to open China. As councilman for Manhattan's Lower East Side, Pagan may be the only elected official in America who is an openly gay Puerto Rican liberal. Yet these days he is best known as the champion of a distinctly unprogressive-sounding cause: an effort to sweep the homeless people from the streets of his district. In 1991 he spearheaded a successful campaign to chase squatters out of Tompkins Square Park. Now he is leading the charge to block radical gay activists from...
...school, I learned about things like poverty, civil rights and social responsibility. The world was more complicated than the stratified one the conservatives had invented for me. Abigail Adams has been dead for nearly three hundred years now; Mother Teresa does more for this world in one hour than Nixon, Reagan and Bush did all their lives...
...Halperin manage to get himself caught between the cross hairs of a confirmation hearing so savage it resembled a drive-by shooting? True, Halperin is a liberal icon whose career stretches from the Nixon Administration -- he resigned in 1970 over the White House's policy on Cambodia -- to Washington director of the American Civil Liberties Union. But it is his nomination to the Pentagon's newly created position in charge of peacekeeping operations abroad that has turned him into an object lesson in the way a band of conservative Congressmen, bureaucrats and ideological crusaders are using the Senate's confirmation...
...time, Bill Clinton called it "a war I opposed and despised with a depth of feeling I have reserved solely for racism in America." Yet it was prosecuted by two successive Administrations. In the 1972 election, the winner by landslide was Richard Nixon, war President. Same war. Clinton had a clarity of vision about the war no less certain than Nixon's -- only diametrically opposed...