Word: nixon
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...TIME was caught in a general American degringolade, a deconstruction of established authority from the President on down. In the '70s, TIME helped guide the nation through the trauma of Watergate, and as part of its role as moral counselor, published the only editorial in its history, urging Richard Nixon to resign...
...raised the softer, more charitable side of the national psyche to an ascendancy over reliance on rugged individualism. Big Government would later expand far beyond anything the New Dealers had ever imagined--first during World War II, then in Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Republicans Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon campaigned as philosophical opponents of Big Government, but once in power they made no real attempt to cut it back. Even Ronald Reagan could do little more than put a lid on its expansion. It took Democrat Bill Clinton to declare the era of Big Government finally over...
DIPLOMACY Richard Nixon's Long March...
What, if anything, did Richard Nixon bring back from Peking? Above all, the event itself, the fact that it took place. Rarely had a U.S. President spent so long a time--a full week--in a foreign land. The visit, moreover, was to a country with which the U.S. did not even have diplomatic relations and which for two decades had been a virtual enemy...
DreamWorks partner JEFFREY KATZENBERG has taken some ribbing since a photo of him by DIANA WALKER seemingly embracing the Vice President from behind appeared in these pages two weeks ago. Was this an example of Sammy Davis Jr.-hugging-Nixon-like enthusiasm? Not quite. What happened was that Katzenberg was hanging out with SIR ELTON JOHN following John's rehearsal before the state dinner in honor of British Prime Minister TONY BLAIR. Katzenberg had been lobbying John to sing a tune he didn't write for the very-high-stakes upcoming DreamWorks animated film Prince of Egypt. Unfortunately, John doesn...