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...created by President Nixon in 1970. The first director was George Shultz. He was succeeded in 1972 by Caspar Weinberger. Before that there was the Bureau of the Budget, set up in 1921 by President Warren G. Harding. Its first director was Charles G. Dawes...
...former editor at several Mississippi newspapers, Speakes worked as a press officer for both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Since he took over the job of acting press secretary when James Brady was wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on the President, however, Speakes has not enjoyed as much freedom as some of his predecessors, notably Jody Powell in the Carter Administration. Some reporters, sensing that Speakes does not have complete access to Reagan's inner circle, take out their frustrations on him, thus contributing to the combative tone of the briefings...
...July 4, 1985, Richard Nixon sits in a low-back armchair, his legs crossed on an ottoman, his hands contributing to his account of the past 40 years of atomic diplomacy by drawing circles in the air, playing an absent piano, shooing away a wrong idea, coming together in an arch or making points in precise order: one, two, three, four. It is shortly after 8 a.m. Two mornings back to back he has been discussing the effects of Hiroshima on the world and on the presidency in his office in a federal building in downtown Manhattan. The building...
Sitting in the right field bleachers on Opening Night at Yankee Stadium, wearing four shirts and a heavy coat underneath my Trot Nixon jersey, I was able to observe Yankee fans in their natural, undisturbed habitat...
...question Inside Deep Throat's emphasis on the Nixon Administration's attempt to muzzle pornography. What I do know is that it didn't work. Publicly exhibited porn flourished for the next decade. New York City, certainly, was much more open in the Lindsay-Beame-and-Koch 70s than it would be in the Giuliani 90s. In the early days you could see such perverse eccentricities as Why, a Kronhausen documentary about a Danish farm girl, Bodil Joensen, who has sex with her livestock. That one I skipped...