Word: nixon
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...Post prints that a $25,000 check for the Nixon campaign fund wound up in one of the burglars' bank accounts...
...about an imminent military threat from a nonbelligerent force, was analogous to the actions of a certain U.S. President. As Lucas noted, though, he wrote the original story 30 years ago, when another American military engagement was in the news, and the leader's name was not Bush, but Nixon. The only competition film explicitly about U.S. foreign policy, Hiner Saleem's Kilometre Zero, presents Iraq's sorry history from an anti-Saddam, pro-U.S. viewpoint and ends in April 2003 with its Kurdish hero exulting as coalition soldiers march into Baghdad. (One critic called the film "insufficiently anti...
...fact, as Lucas has said many times, he laid out the story for the entire saga in the early 70s, when another American military engagement was turning sour. Thus Palpatine was more Nixon than Bush, and the slaughter of the innocents in the Jedi Temple is an echo of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam...
...Many would argue that the appointment of the next Federal Reserve chair is as important to the future of the country as the appointment of the next Supreme Court justice,” said Gergen, a former adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton...
...likewise a turning-point in Nixon’s career. As a freshman congressman from California, he hauled a former State Department official named Alger Hiss before the House Un-American Activities Committee on charges that Hiss was a spy. The committee hearings, which were televised, made Nixon a star...