Word: nixon
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...there - is dwindling almost by the day. Obama's bumper-sticker plan for Afghanistan - more troops to catch bin Laden - is being swallowed up in a befuddling tangle of intractable issues, ranging from the Afghan heroin trade to the instability of Kashmir. Foreign policy breeds surprises in American Presidents: Nixon went to China; Reagan proposed nuclear disarmament; Bush changed from "humble" to imperial in a single morning. Compounding the unpredictability is the excitement Obama's candidacy has stirred in parts of the world. Will the novelty of a multiracial President with a Kenyan name have tangible diplomatic benefits? A scientist...
...film was a grail: a Buttofuoco- or Lewinsky-like solid laugh line. "This is kinda strange country, isn't it?" asked Johnny Carson at the time when the movie was challenging Watergate as the topic du jour. "Judges can see Deep Throat but they can't listen to those [Nixon] tapes." Bob Hope said, "I went to see Deep Throat cause I'm fond of animal pictures. I thought it was about giraffes." When Bob Hope makes a joke about your porno movie, you've arrived...
...Unlike earlier Stone films “JFK” and “Nixon,” “W.” fails to provoke debate or shed new light on an already over-exposed political figure. Instead, Stone settles for a hastily-constructed biopic of George W. Bush that unskillfully combines a sometimes comedic tone with serious subject matter. “W.” is neither provocative nor riveting; it’s simply dull and conventional...
Politicians have been calling their voters the salt of the earth--and delegitimizing the other guy's--since Richard Nixon's Silent Majority and before. But now they're abetted by a political press that dotes on a nostalgic definition of realness that bears ever less relation to today's America...
...While call centers have played a prominent role in politics since the 1940s - Richard Nixon worked the phones for his successful 1946 run for the U.S. House of Representatives - automated dialing and message playback weren't perfected until the late 1980s. Since then, thanks to improved technology and decreased cost, the campaign tactic has become the leading method to reach voters. In fact, the Pew Research Center found that nearly two-thirds of American households in battleground states like Ohio and Florida received robo-calls in the final weeks of the 2006 midterm elections, with some voters receiving as many...