Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national reputation for rectitude as a member of the Nixon impeachment panel in your first term in Congress. Yet scarcely 10 years after that national crisis, another group in the White House was secretly subverting the law in the Iran-contra affair...
Next day, as if to underscore the Democratic Party's dispiriting prospects, the aging, battle-scarred George McGovern announced at a National Press Club luncheon that he would not run again for President. He had, he explained, consulted Richard Nixon, of all people, who told McGovern he should pose two questions to himself: Did he have something to say that others would not say? And would they listen? George McGovern had no sure answers and admitted...
Adding irony to the dispute is an often overlooked fact: government efforts to "level the playing field" by giving blacks special treatment were first adopted not by blacks or white liberals, but by conservative Republicans. In 1959 then-Vice President Richard M. Nixon, as head of President Eisenhower's Committee on Contracts, recommended limited "preferential" treatment for qualified blacks seeking jobs with government contractors. Following up that recommendation, John F. Kennedy issued an Executive Order in 1961 calling for "affirmative action" as the means to promote equal opportunity for racial minorities in hiring by federal contractors -- the first official...
Eight years later, Nixon, as President, beefed up the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which, along with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has become one of the government's two main enforcers of affirmative-action policy. It oversees 225,000 companies, with a combined work force of 28 million, that do business with the Federal Government. In 1971 Nixon's Labor Department started the Philadelphia Plan, a quota system & that required federal contractors in Philadelphia, and later Washington, to employ a fixed number of minorities...
...weak side -- to lend geographical or ideological balance, for example. Conservative Californian Ronald Reagan picked Connecticut-Texas moderate George Bush. It may be a matter of ages, aesthetics, chemistry and coloring, as well as political alliances. Elder, moderate, military statesman Dwight Eisenhower chose younger, nastier, darker, feistier conservative Richard Nixon. At some time down the line, national tickets will be balanced by sex and race as well...