Word: nixon
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...other terminally ill patients, O'Connor enlisted Killea, then an assemblywoman, to sponsor the regulatory legislation needed from the state. Just when everything seemed to be in place, Republican Governor George Deukmejian vetoed the bill. The team closed ranks once more. Copley and her editor in chief, former Nixon aide Herb Klein, agreed to turn some Republican heat on the capital by dispatching a ringing letter to Deukmejian. The Governor was sufficiently impressed to reverse his decision and sign the hospice legislation. "Now that is how you use power," says Kroc admiringly. "That is just the way the men used...
...Saturday, part of the leftover Iran-contra scandal that keeps snarling at his polished heels like a nasty attack dog. He had every right to repair to his bright Bel Air home, high above the smog, and have a little bit of the post-White House blues like Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter...
...York Democrat is a former Harvard professor with a knack for stirring up controversy. As Assistant Secretary in Lyndon Johnson's Labor Department, he kicked up a fuss by issuing a hotly disputed report on female- headed black families. Five years later, as Richard Nixon's adviser on domestic policy, he urged "benign neglect" on racial issues, meaning that the Administration should let racial controversy cool before launching new civil rights initiatives. In the case of Social Security, Moynihan admits that he was out to attract notice through the political equivalent of hitting Congress over the head with...
Reagan's lawyers objected to Greene's order. But only after repeated questions from the court did Reagan's attorney Theodore Olson even use the words Executive privilege as the basis for resisting the order. This defense inevitably raises comparisons with Richard Nixon, who failed to persuade the Supreme Court that his secret White House recordings merited this protection...
...some ways Reagan's position is weaker than Nixon's. Judge Greene observed that a former President has less standing to claim Executive privilege than the one in office, implying that Reagan would have a much stronger case if George Bush joined him in asking that the diary excerpts be suppressed. So far, Bush has not, and for an obvious reason: it might appear that he and Reagan both have something to hide about their Iran-contra roles...