Word: nixon
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...Bush - jet lagged, no doubt, because the tennis court they played on was in Beijing. 'Bush 43' was then fresh out of the Harvard Business School, and 'Bush 41' was chief of the first United States Liason Office in Beijing - the de facto embassy that had opened after Richard Nixon's historic opening to China...
...launch an impeachment investigation into George W. Bush's many high crimes and misdemeanors because "you can't talk about impeachment unless you have the facts, and you can't have the facts unless you have cooperation from the Administration" [Aug. 11]. What a lame excuse! Did the Nixon Administration cooperate with Congress to provide the facts during its impeachment proceedings? Pelosi and her colleagues in Congress should be held in contempt for failing to uphold their oath to defend and support the Constitution when they took impeachment off the table. Richard Notkin, Helena, Montana...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt with Fala 2. Lyndon Johnson with his beagle 3. Warren Harding with Laddie Boy 4. Richard Nixon with Checkers
...Obama is also scheduled to hold a fund raiser at the posh Halekulani Hotel in Waikiki that could rake in more than $500,000, reaping the rewards of being the first presidential nominee to travel to Hawaii since Richard Nixon in 1960. There's no word on where he might be staying during his visit, but he may want to avoid that particular hotel, which suffered a plague of bedbugs in April, according to the Pacific Business News...
Trying to establish those who opposed Dwight Eisenhower's, John F. Kennedy's, Richard Nixon's and Ronald Reagan's negotiations with the enemy as the same people - the anti-engagers - is ludicrous. Everything a President does is opposed by someone for some reason. The larger point is that we must negotiate through strength, a fact Obama seems not to understand. Neither did Jimmy Carter. Obama's willingness to withdraw from Iraq while on the brink of victory and to talk without condition to the perpetrators of much of the violence is foolhardy and dangerous. Mark Shreeve, DANDRIDGE, TENN...