Word: nixonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah is not angry at all Americans. He writes: "In exile at Cuernavaca, I had the great pleasure of visits from Henry Kissinger and former President Nixon. On the subject of American and international politics, I always found Kissinger much better informed than anyone else. Always true to his principles, he served his country by being fully conscious of the might of the U.S. and of American responsibility for maintaining the balance of power in the world...
...their visits to the exile of Cuernavaca, Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Nixon have demonstrated that there are some Americans who remain faithful in their friendships-unlike those who 'threw the emperor out of his country like a dead mouse...
...Watergate Investigative Reporter Bob Woodward, that made the nation's highest tribunal a "sitting target." Together with Washington Post Reporter Scott Armstrong, Woodward set out to do for Chief Justice Warren Burger's Supreme Court what he and Carl Bernstein had done for Richard Nixon's White House in All the President's Men and The Final Days. Fortified by a $350,000 advance from Simon & Schuster, Woodward and Armstrong spent two years reading cases and interviewing Justices and more than 170 former court clerks, top-level law school graduates who serve as confidential aides...
...leftover liberals from the Earl Warren Court, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, are embittered and isolated. In his chambers, Brennan calls the chief "dummy" and rails in dissent with an "acid pen." (Brennan is not, however, above letting a life sentence stand in one case in order to cultivate Nixon appointee Blackmun, even though Brennan believes that the convicted man deserves a new trial.) Marshall, the only black Justice, has given up. "I'm going fishing," he tells his clerks. "You kids fight the battles. What difference does it make? Why fight when you can just dissent...
...respective targets were safely settled in their graves before knocking them off their pedestals, Davis spares no such restraint in her heedless rush to profit from the "sins" of Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham. Forget the tales about Graham risking the family newspaper to take on the house that Nixon built. From Davis's perspective, Watergate stemmed not from the dictates of journalistic integrity but from the arrogance of a woman piqued by a presidential spurning of her peacepipe...