Word: nixon
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WHOM YOU'LL SEE Big-name politicians, business leaders, entertainers and other professionals with an interest in the arts. In 1992 former Presidents Reagan and Nixon attended, and virtually every Republican President in recent history has been a member. Other members (on a roster the club keeps secret) reportedly are Charlton Heston, Walter Cronkite, Alexander Haig...
FIRING: EPILOGUE Democratic nominee George McGovern drops Thomas Eagleton, picks up Sargent Shriver; crushed by Nixon...
...same, recognizing that the U.S. had no option but to deal with China. Its rising power made it a force to be reckoned with, like it or not. And so Clinton, after some I'll-do-it-different demagoguery of his own, became the sixth President since Richard Nixon opened the way in 1972, to practice "constructive engagement" with China...
...Beijing the first law of summitry is to make sure the world leader on the other side of the table understands that he is the supplicant, especially if that is not the case. When Richard Nixon made his famous journey to meet Mao Zedong in 1972, China was in a terribly weakened condition and most vulnerable to the military might of the Soviet Union. But Nixon, with Henry Kissinger leading the way, went hat in hand, grateful for just an audience with one of the great tyrants of the 20th century...
DIED. SHIRLEY POVICH, 92, irrepressible Washington Post sports columnist whose career stats--more than 15,000 articles in seven decades--made him the Cal Ripken of the beat; in Washington. Povich scored his first byline in 1924 and was soon a breakfast staple for Washington's sports addicts: President Nixon called his column "the only reason" to read the Post. But Povich's prose transcended the play-by-play; he championed such causes as integration, writing in 1946: "Four hundred and fifty-five years after Columbus eagerly discovered America, major league baseball reluctantly discovered the American Negro...