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DIED. ARTHUR FLETCHER, 80, adviser to G.O.P. Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and George H.W. Bush, dubbed the "father of affirmative action"; in Washington. A onetime defensive end for the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams, he developed the so-called Revised Philadelphia Plan as Nixon's Assistant Labor Secretary. Based on an earlier effort to diversify that city's racist construction unions, his was the first workable outline for affirmative action and became the blueprint for subsequent programs. He later ran the United Negro College Fund, where he coined the slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste...
...Setting The Record Straight ? Not Quite Impeached "The Saga Unfolds" timeline [June 13], which listed events from the break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices inside the Watergate complex to the resignation of President Nixon, stated that in July 1974, "Congress passes the first of three articles of impeachment against Nixon." The articles were passed not by both houses of Congress but by the House Judiciary Committee. Nixon resigned the presidency before an impeachment vote was taken by the full House...
...second-generation European Muslims--most of them European Union citizens--who are a security risk. "As E.U. citizens, they're eligible for U.S. visa waivers, which means they can represent a direct threat to the U.S.," says Robert Leiken of the Nixon Center, a Washington-based foreign policy think tank founded by the former President. "Local groups that are already in place, that grew up in Western Europe and can conduct surveillance for multiple bombings without arousing a great deal of suspicion--this can be an enormous problem." Right now the FBI has no evidence of any hard-core...
DIED. L. PATRICK GRAY, 88, onetime Nixon loyalist and acting director of the FBI during Watergate, who expressed "total shock" at the disclosure that his former deputy W. Mark Felt was the secret journalistic source Deep Throat; of pancreatic cancer; in Atlantic Beach, Fla. Tapped by Nixon in May 1972, after the death of J. Edgar Hoover, he testified during his 1973 Senate confirmation hearings that he had been turning over FBI files on the Watergate probe to the White House. That prompted Nixon adviser John Ehrlichman to suggest famously that Gray be left to "twist slowly, slowly...
...cares whether Nixon or Giscard ever smoked - or ever shared Brezhnev's company together? Their function in the tale was simply to underscore Russians' jaundiced view of their own rulers. I was reminded of this joke from my youth by the furor over President Putin's recent acquisition of a unique piece of jewelry. At the Russian president's reception for American tycoons, Robert Kraft, the owner of this year's Super Bowl Champions New England Patriots, showed Putin his 2005 Super Bowl ring. It's a 14-karat, four ounces white-gold piece, studded with 124 diamonds arranged...