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...about taking the difficult first step sooner than in the past. Previous criticism of U.S. military actions abroad have come only after major gaffes or losses of lives. It took the leak of the bombing of Cambodia combined with over 33,000 U.S. dead to spur then-President Richard Nixon to announce the withdrawal of the first 25,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam in June of 1969. In Lebanon and Somalia, President Ronald Reagan and President Bill Clinton, respectively, did not begin withdrawals until casualties took them by surprise. We should not wait for a catalyst on such a scale...
...kind of like virginity. It's hard to get back." JOHN ZOGBY, pollster, on Bush's chances of regaining public trust, based on the experiences of previous embattled Presidents such as Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon...
...visit by a U.S. president once had the power to change China. President Nixon's breakthrough meeting in Chairman Mao's quarters in 1972 signaled China's willingness to side with the U.S. against the Soviet Union; President Reagan's visit in 1984 helped consolidate China's economic reforms; and President Clinton's arrival in 1998-the first American presidential visit since the Tiananmen massacre-generated such hope for political reform that a group of dissidents responded by forming an opposition party...
...explained that since anyone appointed by her would still be seen as her operative, it would be better for experienced department investigators to carry on. With Reno's blessing, Justice officials picked a prosecutor with impeccable Republican credentials -- Donald Mackay, a fraud-section lawyer who was once a Nixon-appointed U.S. attorney -- to direct the criminal investigation of Madison and Whitewater. Which of these scandals will dog the President? Perhaps not the sexual imbroglio -- Americans knew Clinton had sinned but elected him anyway. Says William E. Leuchtenburg, professor of history at the University of North Carolina: ''It's one question...
...putting himself at enormous personal risk in the enterprise -- not now from his long-sworn enemy but from those on his own side who would cry betrayal. But each had the armor of his record in the struggle. Just as only a longtime anticommunist like Richard Nixon could convincingly make the opening to China, so only men with the longevity in their conflicts of Rabin, Arafat, De Klerk and Mandela had the credibility to make peace. None of the men much liked his partner. They were bound together, two by two, as if in an impossible combination: they became each...