Word: nixon
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...nomination. If these efforts are sustained, Barack Obama will win the election in November and bring a younger look and a new approach to national politics. Contrast this strategy to the less disciplined street tactics used back in 1968, tactics that triggered a conservative backlash and helped elect Richard Nixon...
...October 1973 when, in response to the Yom Kippur War, Arab oil producers imposed an embargo on exports. Before the embargo, in 1972, the price of imported oil was about $3.20 per barrel; by 1975, the average price was nearly $14 per barrel, more than four times greater. President Nixon had imposed economy-wide controls on wages and prices in 1971, including prices of petroleum products; in November 1973, in the wake of the embargo, the President placed additional controls on petroleum prices.2
...blown away that the guy who would eventually make a run for president had read my work,” said Stone, who began his Washington career as a legal counsel to McGovern, after the senator lost the presidential election to Richard Nixon in 1972. While working for McGovern, Stone became a proactive advocate for combating hunger and poverty...
...Death row is full of the poor and the powerless. At the same time, as sociologist Jefferey Reinman has pointed out, government leaders such as Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon have never even gone to trial for their involvement in military actions abroad which led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans in southeast Asia...
...Nineteen fifty-eight presents Richard Nixon with a bevy of choices that have to be made and risks that have to be taken. He still sits at the head of the class because he’s teacher’s pet, but he’s beginning to wonder what will happen when teacher leaves the classroom...