Word: nixon
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...asked more of Israel than any other President ever had -- to do nothing while Iraqi Scuds screamed down on its cities. That is why it is riveting to watch Bush now in the role of Israel's angry disciplinarian. But just as it took a fierce anticommunist like Richard Nixon to open the door to China, it was Bush, the Commander in Chief of the armed forces that seven months ago routed Israel's enemy from Kuwait, who had to deliver the message no other President has ever delivered so publicly before: Israel can no longer expect to exercise...
...case in point is the 1952 presidential election, when vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon averted political disaster for the ticket of Dwight D. Eisenhower and himself when he delivered his famous Checkers speech. As California's junior Senator, he had accepted a regular allowance from a group of wealthy Los Angeles businessmen, and there appeared to be real danger that he would be dropped from the ticket. In his speech, he neglected to answer the charges directly, but informed a listening electorate, with quavering voice and moistened eye, that he was a virtual pauper, whose sole assets were...
...nine-for-12 stealing bases, and therein lies the reason for all this. With Otis Nixon, the major league's stolen base leader, suspended for a drug violation, the Braves need all the speed they...
...director of Central Intelligence is nominally in charge of all U.S. intelligence-gathering operations, but the Secretary of Defense is de facto boss of defense agency intelligence. He's "the 900-lb. gorilla in intelligence," argues Richard Helms, who was CIA chief under Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. There are calls for the creation of an intelligence czar with unassailable authority. Failing that, critics are insisting that the warring agencies work out clearer terms of cooperation that the next CIA chief can unequivocally enforce...
...coattailers are up against two obstacles: the President's innate prudence, which makes him understandably leery of any strategy that could conceivably jeopardize his own re-election; and the vanity he shares with all politicians, which feeds his dream of besting the modern record shared by Reagan and Richard Nixon -- a 49- state sweep. Those two hurdles alone may prove impossible to overcome, with predictable results: a normal "me first" campaign that produces a Bush victory and a Democratic Congress. Or, to put it another way, four more years of governmental paralysis...