Word: nixon
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...voice in public. But just a few months after he broke with George W. Bush on Iraq, urging him to stay focused on the war against terrorism before going after Saddam Hussein, Scowcroft is speaking out again. This time he's tangling with an old colleague from the Nixon and Ford years, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...same could be said, of course, about such Republican heroes as, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon or George Bush the elder, all of whom used coded racial messages to lure disaffected blue collar and Southern white voters away from the Democrats. Yet it's with Reagan, who set a standard for exploiting white anger and resentment rarely seen since George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door, that the Republican's selective memory about its race-baiting habit really stands...
...uncle, whom he met as an undergraduate at Yale, and like Bush was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society. He was given his first job on Wall Street by Bush’s great uncle, Herbert Walker, and served in the State Department in both the Nixon and Ford administrations...
Critics jumped on the appointment, citing the Nixon-era diplomat's penchant for secrecy. Kissinger quickly went to work to counter that impression. He had dinner with the panel's vice chairman, former Democratic Senator George Mitchell; met with 9/11 victims' families that were at his West Wing announcement; and, sources tell TIME, plans to appoint a liaison to keep in daily contact with families during the probe. Others are worried that Kissinger will be swayed by his many business interests. The international consultant is said to be outraged by the insinuation, but he will not disclose his thick client...
...APPOINTED. HENRY KISSINGER, 79, Nobel Prize-winning former U.S. secretary of state who served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford; by President George W. Bush to head a new independent commission to investigate intelligence and security failures over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; in Washington D.C. While Kissinger was Bush's first choice, critics on both sides of the Atlantic have jumped on the appointment, pointing to Kissinger's penchant for secrecy during the Nixon era. Kissinger insists: "We are under no restrictions, and we will accept no restrictions...