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...last time a major rock star visited a Republican President in hopes of influencing policy, little happened. In 1970 Elvis Presley dropped in on Richard Nixon, angling to become a federal agent to fight the drug war; the President gave the narcotic-addled Presley an honorary badge and sent him on his way. When Bono visited PRESIDENT BUSH last week, the U2 singer proved considerably more effective, and coherent. Bono lobbied Bush to increase money to fight AIDS in Africa and assist impoverished countries. Later that day Bush pledged $5 billion in foreign aid to poor nations that improve their...
...there have been no allegations of dirty tricks, but Richard Nixon's two daughters have become estranged and are battling each other over how to run the library and foundation dedicated to the President. Since her father's death eight years ago, JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER, right, in 1972, has argued that the Nixon Foundation should be ruled by an independent board of directors, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. TRICIA NIXON COX believes the board should be controlled by the family. The dispute came to a head over a gift from Nixon confidant Bebe Rebozo, who left...
...elevated the paper into a top-ranked national contender that won 12 Pulitzer Prizes during his 1965-84 tenure; of lymphoma; in Boston. Proud of his "short attention span" and known for his constant stream of ideas, Winship consistently opposed the Vietnam War--three Globe reporters landed on President Nixon's "enemies" list--and won a Pulitzer for the paper's coverage of Boston's court-ordered desegregation in the 1970s. "I never had a boring week," he said...
...aspires to be so much more, a country where religion is neither stifled nor imposed, and where ultimately the army has no role at all in governmental affairs. Pakistan is, and always has been, the most dependable U.S. ally in all of South and Central Asia. When President Nixon sought to engage China, it was Pakistan that helped. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, it was Pakistan which stepped up to arm and train the mujahedeen. In the ’50s and ’60s, Pakistani bases were used by American U-2s spying on the Soviet Union. Today...
...words of the very commission convened by President Nixon to justify the prohibition of marijuana, “The drug’s relative potential for harm…and its actual impact on society does not justify a social policy designed to seek out and firmly punish those who use it.” This conclusion can be supported along several lines...