Word: nixon
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...video featuring a collection of Richard M. Nixon's most famous political speeches drones on in the background, while buttons from Herbert Hoover's race for the White House remain untouched inside their glass cases...
...White House from having to reveal communications between the President and his advisers in matters of national security or "legitimate public interest." Executive privilege has always been a murky point of law--it is implied, not specified, in the Constitution--but it became downright sinister during Watergate when Richard Nixon invoked it in an attempt to block release of his secret Oval Office tapes. Ever since, Executive privilege has been associated with Executive cover-up, which tends to overlook the legitimate argument that a President has a right to unfettered advice. But prosecutors and Congress have countervailing rights...
...dimensions of his problem were very different, but RICHARD NIXON, like Bill Clinton, was happy to change the subject with a foreign trip. TIME's June 24, 1974, report...
From the moment Richard Nixon set foot on Egyptian soil, beginning his historic, seven-day trip to four Arab nations and Israel, the huzzas and hosannas fell like sweet rain. For the President, coming out of the parched Watergate wasteland of Washington, the praise and the cheers of multitudes were welcome indeed, particularly since each stop, each spectacle, was beamed in living color back to [U.S.] living rooms...[H]ome was never like this, and the President's aides were convinced that the accolades abroad would strengthen Nixon's hand in his battle to stave off impeachment. The hegira...
...play: How to support Starr as an enemy of Bill without attaching your name to the investigator's ghastly approval ratings? Arlen Specter hedged with the 'if true' approach: "Unless there is an open and shut case, the kind which would result in a resignation, as happened with President Nixon, I do not think there ought be an impeachment proceeding...