Word: nixonization
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...poem that compared minarets to bayonets - but it was that experience, aides say, that convinced him that his party's political survival depended on European guarantees of freedom of expression. As a conservative Muslim, he was well placed to bring traditionalists with him, notes a Turkish diplomat: "It was Nixon who went to China." Rapid reform, however, has done little to impress the opponents of Turkish accession, who focus on emotionally powerful issues like Europe's historically Chris-tian identity. In the latest French poll, 56% of respondents say they oppose Turkish accession "in principle." But in the same poll...
...were senior citizens, and through those interactions I learned that aging and retired people are incredibly friendly to total strangers. They’d gladly invite me into their homes, reminisce about arguments they used to have with their union friends over whether to vote for Nixon, and maybe offer me a Dolly Madison or two before talking for as long as they could keep me captive. And they vote. Lord do they vote. Every last one of them. In fact, a good half of them serve as election judges...
...course, Rather has a 40-year history of rushing into the inferno. And the fact that conservatives have been calling him biased since before man walked on the moon seems to have done little to deter him. When he covered President Richard Nixon, he was known as "the reporter the White House hates." In 1988 he relentlessly grilled George H.W. Bush, then Vice President, about the Iran-contra affair, and the elder Bush has not spoken to him since. Rather got in trouble again in 2001 for speaking at a Democratic fund-raiser in Texas, for which he later apologized...
...time of war, neither party can afford to look soft on national security. In the early days of the Cold War, John F. Kennedy won by promising to be even more aggressive than Eisenhower and Nixon in pushing back Communism. To gain traction this year, Kerry will have to fight back on foreign policy. But he needs a real response; simply saying that Bush mucked things up in Iraq isn?t enough. He has to have his own plan to win the war on terror, one that shows he would fight a smarter and even more aggressive campaign against...
...with impunity. Indeed, if he hopes to win, Kerry will have to do much more of that. He will have to become a version of the young John Kerry not celebrated at the Democratic Convention--the eloquent, passionate, uncoached leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War who caused the Nixon White House serious heartburn. Where did that fabulous young politician ever go, anyway...