Word: nixon
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...midst of Russia's crisis, TIME contributor Hugh Sidey talked with Richard Nixon, and contributor Christopher Ogden interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, who was on a visit to Calgary, Alberta...
...President." Clinton somehow apparently managed to confirm White in that desire, even though the Justice must have known that the President is likely to appoint someone with a strikingly different legal approach (a standard Washington gag is that while White was named by Kennedy, he was philosophically Richard Nixon's first court appointee...
...STRETCH TO SAY "AS RUSSIA GOES, SO GOES THE UNITED STATES," but not by much. "If Boris Yeltsin . . . is replaced by aggressive, hard-line nationalists," Richard Nixon wrote recently, "this will have a far greater impact on the American economy than all the Clinton domestic programs combined. Aid to . . . Russia is an investment in peace." As economics has become the 1990s equivalent of arms control, so the President's informal campaign slogan -- "It's the economy, stupid" -- may now refer as much to Russia's as to America...
...condemned to bear the name of Flie Fornication Andrewes. Of course, it is also possible that Andrewes sailed along, calling himself by a jaunty, executive "F.F. Andrewes." Even the most humiliating name can sometimes be painted over or escaped altogether. Initials are invaluable: H.R. (Bob) Haldeman, of the Nixon White House, deftly suppressed Harry Robbins: "Harry Haldeman" might not have worked...
...OBJECT OF HIS FAITH USED TO BE RICHARD NIXon. But prison, where he was sent for his role in the Watergate scandal, triggered a religious conversion in former White House aide Charles Colson. "Born again," Colson transformed his zeal for Republican politics (he once said he would walk over his own grandmother for Nixon) into a devotion to Jesus. He founded the Prison Fellowship, an organization designed to change the lives of convicts through a combination of practical assistance and relentless evangelism. Colson's two decades of commitment have worn down most of the skeptics who questioned the sincerity...