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Sound bizarre? It is, but it also happens to be U.S. policy on marijuana. Since the administration of President Richard Nixon, America has put billions upon billions of dollars into the War on Drugs, with the lion’s share of funds allotted to fighting marijuana. There are over 20 federal agencies involved in combating cannabis and the combined cost to taxpayers is tremendous...
DIED. HOWARD K. SMITH, 87, impassioned, combative news broadcaster for CBS and ABC; in Bethesda, Md. Smith, who in 1960 moderated the first-ever televised presidential debate (between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon), believed that journalists should take stands on some issues. He left CBS when CEO William Paley barred him from punctuating a 1961 documentary on racism in Birmingham, Ala., with the Edmund Burke quote "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing...
Sometimes history repeats itself as neither comedy nor farce. Richard Nixon became the first U.S. President to visit Red China in 1972 in order to create a new global coalition against his enemy?the Soviet Union. On Feb. 21, 30 years to the day after Nixon touched down, George W. Bush is arriving to create a new global coalition against his enemy?international terrorism. It would be grandiose to suggest that Bush's two-day swing through Beijing will change the sweep of history the way his predecessor's did. Yet three decades on, China again relishes the chance...
...lieutenant general who was U.S. ambassador to the U.N.; in West Palm Beach, Florida. Walters' military career began at the outset of WW II, and his linguistic abilities?he spoke seven foreign languages?led him to become a globe-trotting envoy for U.S. Presidents from Harry Truman to Richard Nixon?who appointed him deputy director of the cia in 1972. He retired after four years and in 1981 started a 10-year stint as a diplomat including three at the U.N. DIED. NANDOR HIDEGKUTI, 79, legendary Hungarian footballer who was part of the Hungarian squad that won gold...
Elliot Richardson held many high level positions in the federal government. During the Nixon administration, he served at various times as secretary of health, education and welfare, secretary of defense and attorney general. And under the Ford administration, he was secretary of commerce and ambassador to Great Britain...