Word: nixonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, Liddy called Richard Nixon...
...hello," said Nixon...
Richardson, who has held four cabinet posts, resigned as Attorney General in 1973 rather than carry out former President Richard M. Nixon's order to fire Archibald Cox '34. Loeb University Professor and the first Watergate special prosecuter...
...India:Pakistan war of 1971 was perhaps the most complex issue of Nixon's first term. What made the crisis so difficult was that the stakes were so much greater than the common perception of them. I remain convinced to this day that Mrs. Gandhi was not motivated primarily by conditions in East Pakistan. India struck in late November; by the timetable that we induced Yahya to accept, martial law would have ended and a civilian government would have taken power at the end of December. This would almost surely have led to the independence of East Pakistan-probably...
...crisis also demonstrated the error of the myth that Nixon, aided by me, exercised an octopus-like grip over a Government that was kept in ignorance of our activities. The reality was the opposite of the folklore: not widening White House dominance but bitter departmental rearguard resistance; not clear-cut directives but elliptical maneuvers to keep open options; not the inability of the agencies to present their