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John F. Kennedy '40 defeated Richard M. Nixon in the first televised presidential debate thanks to youthful good looks and a lot of energy...
...hunts and hypocrisy?--no one is yet sure what its repercussions will be. Watergate was followed by an era of weakened presidential leadership and moralizing politics. But Watergate was about clear abuses of presidential power, not middle-aged sex play and the attendant embarrassments, and it ended with Richard Nixon in pieces on the ground. By comparison, Bill Clinton is merely scuffed and dented, and his accusers are on the defensive, while most people profess indifference to the whole matter. So everything that happened in the past year points to two conclusions that appear contrary...
...Predicting the verdict of generations to come is always risky. But of one outcome we can be reasonably certain. The first thing future textbooks will say about Bill Clinton is that he is the only elected President ever to be impeached. (Andrew Johnson was not elected. Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment.) This simple, singular fact will overpower other things for which Clinton might take credit: half a dozen years of unexampled prosperity; a balanced budget; a capture of the political middle from the Republicans; and persistent efforts to stop the killing in Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Bosnia...
...emotions came rushing back earlier this month after I flew to Beijing for a remarkable three-hour dinner with Jiang Zemin, China's President and General Secretary of the Communist Party. Driving into the Diaoyutai State Guest House, where Henry Kissinger's secret meetings paved the way for Richard Nixon's trip to China in 1972, I realized how much China and its leadership had changed and how much America had not--how often we still see China through Luce's eyes...
DIED. FRANKLIN LONG, 88, U.S. government adviser and Cornell University emeritus professor whose nomination to run the National Science Foundation was blocked in 1969 by Richard Nixon; in Pomona, Calif. Long, a vehement advocate of international arms reductions, had criticized the U.S.'s antiballistic-missile system, saying it would pose "strong pressure toward acceleration of the arms race." When Nixon finally offered him the post, after protests from scientists, Long declined...