Word: nixon
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...looms over every modern president, not just Republicans, as a goad or a reprimand, a taunt or an inspiration. Historian, hunter, soldier, essayist, cowboy, megalomaniac - he was bigger than life, in the way that all politicians hope to be. Richard Nixon, a president whose insecurities and intimations of unworthiness reached pathological levels, invoked TR throughout his presidency, right up to the mawkish speech he gave as he left the White House two steps ahead of the sheriff. For politicians of the soft and pampered boomer generation - "well-meaning little men," as TR once called the type, "with receding chins...
...which church would be the likely first member of the second tier. Williams' proposal will probably come to be considered a key moment in the American church's transition into a different relationship with its English parent and the other 36 global Communion provinces. It has a Nixon-goes-to-China meaningfulness. The fact that Williams is a church liberal who is known to be personally progressive on gay issues underlines the seriousness of his reaction. If Williams is greasing the skids for the Episcopalians, then their slide out seems almost guaranteed...
...decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took place in London 1956-1966 New sounds in the air, protest in the streets and revolution in the hills 1966-1976 War in Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon it affects to study an ordinary day or so in the wholly extraordinary lives of its heroes. They are the clear-eyed innocents, imprisoned by fame ? but never for a moment blinded to the really flagrant foolishness of the adult world around them...
...Herndon, Va., organization, founded in 1969, that sponsored 200 conservative lectures across the country last year (in addition to the National Conservative Student Conference). At many schools, those speeches have become the biggest events of the semester. Last year at Duke, for instance, YAF speaker Ben Stein, an ex--Nixon aide and former Comedy Central host, attracted 1,500 people, 200 of whom had to be turned away--a bigger crowd than the one that had come to hear Maya Angelou two months earlier. With its $13 million annual budget, the foundation--run by a former Reagan Administration adviser...
...former Winthrop House resident who is currently the second-in-command at Goldman Sachs. If Paulson is confirmed by the Senate, his departure from Wall Street and move to Washington, D.C. will be a return rather than an introduction. Immediately out of Business School, Paulson served for the Nixon administration as an aide to the assistant secretary of defense from 1970 to 1972. He then joined the White House as staff assistant to the president until 1973. In addition to his interests in business and politics, Paulson is also a nature enthusiast. He enjoys fly fishing and bird watching...