Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David Wilhelm, one of this semester's Institute of Polotics (IOP) Fellows, was drawn into politics when he saw his father throw a shoe at a televised image of Nixon...
Although the Dole campaign said Roger Stone did "no formal work" for the campaign, they lost no time in jettisoning the "volunteer and unpaid adviser" after it was reported that the former Nixon aide had placed X-rated ads on the Internet. But an internal campaign memo obtained by TIME suggests that Stone's role was not so informal. The memo lists Stone as being responsible for opposition research and "bracketing," which is the practice of sending spokesmen and hecklers wherever Clinton is headed...
...already unraveling in 1992, after hinting at weakness earlier. Republican strategists simply didn't understand what was occurring. They insisted their coalition was still young--born on Election Day 1980, when Reagan came to power. In fact, its birth certificate dates back to Nixon's election in 1968, when the South tilted Republican and rescripted presidential politics. By the late 1980s, this coalition, wedded to old ideas, attack strategies and issues, was wearing out. If Michael Dukakis, a caricature of ineffective, low-blood-count Northeastern liberalism, had not allowed himself to be photographed in that tank hatch looking like Mickey...
...view marijuana as dangerous, knowing that it is not physically addictive or lethal. (A fatal dosage would be three-quarters of a ton smoked over a 15-minute period.) Accordingly, I believed marijuana laws to be draconian, a view once shared by Jimmy Carter, Dan Quayle and Richard Nixon's marijuana commission, all of whom favored decriminalization. It was only after my appetite for recreational drugs had abated, and I had produced children whom I did not believe capable of "handling" marijuana as responsibly as I had, that I came to oppose decriminalization. I acknowledge that it was this fear...
...worth as sketch artists who could inhabit weird, endearing characters while running wild laps around them. Then they exiled themselves into big-screen junk where they looked forlorn and their talents were cramped. Ninety minutes of Doctor Detroit offered a lot less pure Aykroyd than five minutes of his Nixon on S.N.L...