Word: nixon
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...sent aloft in 1972, when Richard Nixon was in the White House, Bobby Fischer was the world's chess champion, and the IBM 360 mainframe still dominated the computer industry. It was designed to have a useful life of three years, at most. Yet today, after a quarter-century, when Fischer has disappeared from the chess scene and the IBM 360 is merely a nostalgia item on display at Boston's Computer Museum, the doughty little spacecraft Pioneer 10 is still plugging along...
...Warren G. Harding 60.8% 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt 61.1% 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson 60.7% 1972 Richard M. Nixon...
...some triumphant Democrats. If Bill Clinton is re-elected, Perot warned, his second term will be a nightmare of legal problems that will compare with Watergate. That's a stretch. There are no signs now that Clinton faces anything like the obstruction-of-justice scandal that brought down Richard Nixon. But special prosecutor Kenneth Starr keeps nipping at the heels of people around him. And around the First Lady...
Taking a column from the Ross Perot spreadsheet of political life, each week Minnick invites the press to a "Sunday Pork Chop," where he explains how to balance the federal budget. A Nixon Administration budget aide, Minnick wants to eliminate "corporate welfare," get our allies to foot part of the defense bill and trim spending without raising taxes or gutting entitlements...
...Washington these days, there's a feeling of political deja vu. The time: 1972. The candidates: George McGovern and Richard Nixon. President Nixon was headed for a landslide re-election. McGovern was assailing the President on ethics and trying to get some traction on a little-known scandal called Watergate...