Word: nixon
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...mystery. In a two-hour cbs documentary, WATERGATE: THE SECRET STORY, to be aired this Wednesday, Mike Wallace puts the scandal in perspective and elicits new facts from participants. Howard Hunt says a goal was to uncover illegal foreign funds going to the Democrats. Wallace reveals a memo from Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchanan urging use of "a sharp stick" to destroy Democrat Edmund Muskie, and Donald Segretti describes the "dirty tricks" used to accomplish that goal. Bob Woodward adds a few tiny details about "Deep Throat," and the show concludes with the parlor game of guessing just who he might...
Economists prefer to think of federal deficits in terms of their percentage of the gross domestic product. But here too, the news is not good. Back in the days of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, deficits generally hovered at a relatively harmless 1% or 2% of gdp, except for a brief uptick to 3% at the end of the Johnson Administration to help pay for the Vietnam War. In contrast, during the Reagan-Bush years, the deficit's share of gdp shot up to between 3% and 7%, meaning that government red ink was weighing far more heavily...
...were sent to the gulf not to fight Saddam Hussein but to prepare for war between Christianity and Islam. The Saudi preachers also contend that Protestants from the West have been exploiting tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbors to this end. They cite actions by American Presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter as well as televangelists Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson as "proof." Their advice to their followers: seek converts, especially in America; send Korans and money to Palestinian Muslims and urge them to procreate; and commission the best weapons that money can buy -- from Japan...
Still, the connections between Harvard and the administrations following Kennedy's were not completely broken. John H. Dunlop stepped down as dean of the Faculty to become Nixon's secretary of labor...
...might think that graduating Harvard football star Spencer Neumann would have more regrets than Richard Nixon...