Word: nixon
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...Nixon was President when Moonshadow came out. How did you get into this music...
...communist victory to set up what he envisaged as a Chinese government-in-exile in Taiwan. Chiang, whose U.S.-educated wife was his interlocutor with the West, ruled Taiwan with an iron fist for 25 years, and it was his claim to represent all of China that helped the Nixon administration adopt the "One China" policy recognizing Taiwan and China as part of a single political entity. That policy, which remains the cornerstone of U.S.-China relations today, prevents Washington from recognizing Taiwan as a sovereign state, and was crafted as a concession to Beijing's view of the island...
...read the letter, I thought to myself, does Moore really know Wesley Clark? Does he know the Clark who backed the campaigns of Nixon, Reagan, and Bush I, and even showed support for Bush II? Does he know that Clark is up in the air on affirmative action policy, opposes gays serving openly in the military, and is not very critical of the Patriot Act? Or that he’s in favor of nominating Supreme Court justices with “moderate views” and increasing military spending? Or that he has provided almost no plans or promises...
...Thailand Lyndon Johnson stopped by twice during the Vietnam War; Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton also called. Before air travel, the two countries nurtured a long-distance friendship. In 1861, King Rama IV offered the U.S. a gift of Thai elephants, which, he said, could be "turned loose in forests and increase till there be large herds." Abraham Lincoln graciously declined, saying the elephants wouldn't survive North American winters...
...Those remarks raised the hackles of Clark's rivals for the party's nomination, veteran Democrats who questioned whether Clark-who says he voted for Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan-is a closet Republican who changed political stripes out of opportunism. Clark says at the time of that speech he had quiet doubts about Bush's team, but wanted it to succeed. "I still could have hope in early 2001 that this administration would learn its lessons," he said at a recent Democratic candidate debate in Phoenix, Arizona...