Word: nixon
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...tend to work within our delegation and ouralumni," says Nan Nixon, Harvard's full-timeWashington lobbyist. "For the reason that allpolitics is local...
...Often the phone calls [to Congressionalalumni] will be returned," Nixon says. "It's as ifwe had a larger [state] delegation...
...committee? What are theright states? Then you use other universities asconstituent institutions," says Cambridge-basedlobbyist Kevin Casey. "You try to find ways tomake you matter and your views matter."Courtesy of the GazetteOPENING DOORS: Harvard lobbyists JANEH. CORLETTE (L) and NAN NIXON...
...fired off an astonishing amount of ammunition at every species in God's creation, to be stuffed for the American Museum of Natural History. Lyndon Johnson returned to his Texas ranch to drink and smoke and grow his hair long like a hippie and wait to die. Richard Nixon did brooding penance beside the Pacific, then went back East to reinvent himself as elder statesman...
...White House (Viking; 586 pages; $29.95), historian Douglas Brinkley's verdict on Carter is mostly affirmative. In the first place, Carter's Administration, Brinkley believes, accomplished far more than critics have admitted. President Carter achieved the Camp David accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, a normalization in 1979 of Nixon's China initiative, and other strokes. And Carter's postpresidency, in Brinkley's reading, has amounted to a triumph of inner-directed moral activism...