Word: nixon
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...their indictments were bizarre, so, too, was the way they were freed. President Nixon, eager to protect the secret Cambodian bombing, sought to escape blame. In a note to Henry Kissinger, Nixon wrote, "K -- I think Helms should be made to take part of the rap." The CIA chief was no more eager than Nixon to take a fall. The final act in this great morality play was anticlimactic: House Armed Services Committee chairman Mendel Rivers, desiring to protect both one of his constituents who was among the accused and the Army's reputation, told Nixon...
...Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, was in fact Kennedy. Although Addison's is incurable, it is fully treatable, and was in the 1950s. But people are very touchy about the health problems of potential Presidents. If the story had been confirmed 32 years ago, Richard Nixon might have taken office a lot sooner...
...label Oval Office has become shorthand for the locus of power and grave deliberations, but in fact the modern White House occupants rarely used it that way. "The Lincoln Sitting Room was my favorite room," Richard Nixon said. "It was a room for contemplation. I felt we did the best thinking, the most organized, disciplined thinking there. I got my best ideas in that room...
...narrow calculus of television ratings, the four Kennedy-Nixon debates were a glorious success. But for those who longed for something grander, for rhetoric that might rival the Lincoln-Douglas encounters of 1858, for crystal- clear arguments over relevant issues, for clues about potential for presidential leadership, those inaugural debates were a bitter disappointment. The tenor was set with the first reporter's question, a classic softball lobbed right at Senator Kennedy: "Why do you think people should vote for you rather than the Vice President...
Little, alas, has changed in the 32 years since Kennedy and Nixon squabbled interminably about whether to defend two worthless chunks of rock off the coast of China called Quemoy and Matsu. Presidential debates have consistently failed to give voters what they need to make an informed decision: a road map to chart what the next four years would be like with each candidate as President...