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...never used it. "I have no recollection of any operation like that," Laird told reporters Monday. "It doesn't seem logical to me." As for retired admiral Thomas Moorer, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who told CNN reporter Peter Arnett that President Nixon had approved the use of sarin -- well, Moorer backed away from his off-camera comments late Monday, saying he "only heard rumors that it'd been used." Given the nebulous nature of the so-called "secret" war in Laos and North Vietnam, rumor may be as good as it gets...
...idea that he would ever become President or again be leader of his party. Declawed, he returned to Capitol Hill, where as one Senator among 100 he was free to make his caustic observations, to the general amusement of adversaries who not long before considered him deranged. Richard Nixon, he said, was "the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life." Bob Dole, Goldwater's leader in the Senate in the 1980s, "doesn't have the leadership qualities that his job as minority leader requires." After Iran-contra, Goldwater said Ronald Reagan must be either "a liar...
...NAME] BEBE REBOZO [JOB] Buddy to Richard Nixon [WHY IN THE NEWS] Passed away [DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC] Was never indicted [FREQUENTLY PHOTOGRAPHED] In the background...
DIED. ROY EVANS, 88, world's savviest table-tennis champ who paddled his best point off the court: in 1971 he landed the U.S. team an invitation to play in China, paving the way for Nixon's historic visit the next year; in his native Cardiff, Wales. A cutthroat competitor, Evans bristled at the term Ping-Pong diplomacy (he considered Ping-Pong an "awful" name) and, in fact, was disappointed in the storied match, grumbling that the Chinese gave away points...
Before working at NBC, Rowe served as general counsel to several Congressional committees, partner in a Washington law firm and President Jimmy Carter's Chair of Inaugural Balls. His first Washington post wasas an investigator scrutinizing the activities ofPresident Richard M. Nixon...