Word: nixon
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...Chinese government might try to funnel cash. A few months later the NSA took its information to the FBI, which began a probe. Of the six U.S. lawmakers who emerged as major targets, four were from California, where the business community began courting the Chinese soon after Richard Nixon renewed ties in 1972. Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are longtime supporters of China's MFN status. (Feinstein's husband has extensive business interests there.) Representative Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, is a leading opponent. Representative Tom Campbell, a Republican, sits on the House International Relations Committee. Another target...
...RICHARD NIXON Nixon struggled to get his handicap down to 14, but he was never a fanatic about the rules. Sam Snead recalled once playing with the President when Nixon's ball flew into a thicket. Moments later, Snead saw the ball arc onto the fairway. "I knew he threw it out," wrote Snead, but "what could...
According to Horowitz, mass protest of the war stopped in 1971 in response to Richard Nixon's ending the draft laws...
...lifting the blight from America's desperate inner cities. He has made a point of visiting New York City's troubled South Bronx and crumbling areas of Chicago and Los Angeles to underscore his belief that extra capital and market incentives can bring rejuvenation. "It's sort of a Nixon-going-to-China approach," he explains. Specifically, Rubin wants to increase funding to a network of community-development banks across the nation, expand their inner-city small-loan programs and reach out to roughly 10 million low-income Americans who have no bank accounts by incorporating them in the mainstream...
...harangue Nixon after his death as we did during his life? Why is a bad, dead man more likable than a bad, live one? Why bother to forgive those whose actions were so evil? Why should we not hold Nixon, and for that matter Deng, to their dirty lives as enemies of students...