Word: nixon
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...true, it could rank as the dirtiest trick of them all. In an article in the New Yorker, Seymour M. Hersh claims that unreleased archive tapes reveal that Richard Nixon tried in 1972 to link Democratic Party officials to the shooting of Alabama Governor George Wallace. Elvin Stanton, Wallace's chief aide, is calling for the release of all tapes dealing with the Nixon-Wallace affair, now held in secret in the National Archives. But Nixon lawyer R. Stan Mortenson ridiculed Hersh's sources for the story as "incompetent, clerical- level archivists...
Nussbaum is a partner in a New York law firmand worked as senior counsel to the HouseJudiciary Committee when it considered impeachmentof Richard Nixon...
...federal appeals court ruled that former President Richard M. Nixon must be compensated for the government's 1974 seizure of presidential papers and tapes after the Watergate scandal forced him to resign. Although the dollar amount hasn't been determined, some reports estimate it could run into the millions. Ultimately the American taxpayer will foot the bill. An editorial in the New York Times called the court's decision "ludicrous" and said the ruling "adds injury to insult." A spokesperson for Nixon says all the money will go to the Nixon Library and to pay Nixon's legal fees...
...HASN'T JOHN ADAMS' OPERA THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER made the same sort of splash as the composer's earlier Nixon in China? The controversial subject matter -- the murder of an American Jew by Palestinian terrorists -- may be one reason, and Peter Sellars' murky staging at the premiere last year in Brussels another. But the new Nonesuch original-cast CD (which coincides with an updated production in San Francisco) reveals the real explanation: Adams' lush score is fundamentally an oratorio, lacking Nixon's sharp characterization and big set pieces. This, however, is good news for the recording, for Klinghoffer...
...federal intervention and spending, but also restructuring and limiting government, curbing bureaucracy, reforming welfare, strengthening individual responsibility. Many conservatives, this writer included, saw a chance -- just a chance -- that Clinton might carry out conservative policies that a re- elected Bush could not have. That's known as the only-Nixon-could-go-to- China syndrome...