Word: nixon
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...Richard Nixon should have received a higher standing than No. 15 in the historians' ranking of U.S. Presidents. While Nixon is the "most difficult President to assess," many will admit that he was one of the greatest foreign policy Presidents of this century. Also, I disagree that John F. Kennedy (No. 8) might have been "first tier" had he lived. The Vietnam War would have hurt him in the end, and he would probably have lost a bid for a second term. JASON HINDLE Keene...
...Packed with references to Nixon, Starr's speech was pointedly delivered on the 24th anniversary of the day that president refused to let the courts hear his Oval Office tapes -- and to the same audience, the San Antonio Bar Association, that Jaworski addressed in that year. So the independent counsel is trying to spin Intern-gate into Watergate, and himself into Jaworski. Spinning the evidence might be a taller order: Whatever else the Tripp tapes contain, they're no smoking...
DIED. MAURICE STANS, 90, the power behind Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election purse, who bagged the record $61 million in donations that would later help fund Watergate's dirty tricks; in Pasadena, Calif. An accountant by training and Nixon's Commerce Secretary, Stans had a knack for getting fat cats to show him the money, but he maintained that he was not behind its scandalous use. He eventually pleaded guilty to five campaign-finance violations, but the disgrace never eclipsed his fund-raising powers or his loyalty: he raised $30 million for the Nixon library...
...While some cheered the outcome, there was unease about using an anti-mob law to fight abortion activists. ?Everybody who loves the First Amendment has got to sleep uneasily tonight,? said G. Robert Blakely, the Notre Dame professor who drafted RICO for the Nixon administration back in 1970. But for Susan Hill, president of the Chicago abortion clinics, the ends justified the means. ?I feel safer than I did yesterday,? she said. In the end, RICO may be remembered as the tool that allowed the two sides of America?s hottest debate to respectfully disagree...
...first time in history--that the Secret Service is prohibited from testifying about "anything" they learn on duty, because cooperating with a criminal investigation would be an "intrusion." If this outrageous claim is upheld, we will have an imperial Presidency far beyond the wildest dreams of Richard Nixon. Simultaneously, the president is asserting that executive privilege prohibits his wife and assistants from testifying--about matters unrelated to the president's official duties, and which cannot be construed as touching upon national defense. If upheld, this too would be a mind-boggling defeat for the public interest...