Word: nixon
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William Safire, one such gadfly, all but condoned Rollins' actions in a column that ran in The New York Times a few days after the initial rumblings. He harkened back to his days in the Nixon campaign, fighting against the infectious popularity of John F. Kennedy '40. His job was "to direct payments to black, Jewish, Irish, Polish and other newspapers and radio stations...to encourage the gazettes and stations toward editorial balance." What editorial balance is this? A careful weighing of opinions that ends in ambiguity, or a vile attempt to keep journalists from taking a side, making...
...bottom of this matter. If Rollins' first blurted words were the truth, then the election should be re-run. It's not enough to say, "We're sorry, we'll do better next time," when the sanctity of voting rights is violated. While Safire and other Nixon alumni groan, the democratic process must take its course...
...star presence is Stacy Keach, who plays four members of the Rowen family, from a ruthless homesteader before the Revolution to an alcoholic official of a withered union in the Nixon era. The first Rowen is the overarching presence, a character of macho force, demonic glee and utmost energy -- so awe-inspiring that his battered son says the only way he could be killed is if a mountain fell on him. The last Rowen is undone by doubt, destroyed by the conscience his forebear so happily lacked. In between Keach plays a sharecropper who plots vengeance on his landlord...
...long record of horrendous violence," says Missouri State Attorney General Jay Nixon. "The system has provided him with incredible amounts of time and resources, starting with free lawyers. A minimum of 22 judges have reviewed this case, which has taken years of our time and hundreds of thousands of tax dollars. We feel that Lloyd had a trial and has been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." Frank Jung, Nixon's representative at Schlup's last attempt at a new hearing, said, "This is not newly discovered evidence. This is newly developed evidence...
...hold the first religious service on the Capitol steps. But in private he pestered Truman about the need to turn back communism in Korea and encouraged Eisenhower to send troops to Little Rock to enforce school desegregation. According to Martin, so involved was he in counseling his friend Richard Nixon that the defeated candidate would write in 1960, "I have often told friends that when you went into the ministry, politics lost one of its potentially greatest practitioners...