Word: nixon
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...Richard Nixon has managed that feat by following a kind of self-imposed work-release program ever since he resigned and left for San Clemente, Calif., in 1974, churning out dozens of articles and seven books on subjects ranging from Vietnam to geopolitics. Former aide-turned-bete-noire John Dean summed it up neatly: "He's running for the office of ex-President...
Quick to forget, anxious to forgive, many Americans began to wonder whether Nixon had ever really been as bad as all that. Just how thoroughly he has been resurrected was underlined earlier this month when the Washington Post, a primary agent of his destruction, gave front-page play in its opinion section to his plan for granting economic aid to the Soviet Union...
...last week's release of 60 more hours of White House tapes came as a timely reminder that Nixon is not simply an author and global analyst but an unindicted co-conspirator who is lucky to have escaped prison. Listen to any random conversation, on any day, and the mask of respectable elder statesman melts away to reveal a deceitful, lowbrow, vindictive character, dangerously armed with the full power of the IRS, FBI and CIA, and all too willing to use it. Audit his enemies, he orders. "We have to do it artfully so that we don't create...
Unremitting enmity continued until President Richard Nixon's triumphant visit to Beijing in 1972 set up another false impression -- that China under Mao and Deng Xiaoping was a nation on the road to capitalism and possibly even democracy. It is, of course, no such thing. China remains a police state controlled by a Communist Party dictatorship and dedicated to socialist central planning with a few market mechanisms...
...Like Nixon, Bush calls China a force for "stability" in Asia. In fact, China is visibly unstable. The country has experienced "primarily chaos and confusion" in this century, says Richard Holbrooke, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Hundreds of thousands of young Chinese rose up against their government in 1989. In spite of the continuing efforts of the security police to root out "spiritual pollution," which is what they call Western ideas and values, the youth will probably rebel again...