Word: nixonization
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...traipsed around China with Nixon. He visited Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam conflict. He covered political campaigns and conventions from Kennedy to Clinton--not to mention McCarthy and McGovern...
Gergen, now public service professor at the Kennedy School of Government, previously served as special adviser to President Clinton and has also worked in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan...
...President Jiang Zemin stood side by side in Beijing cordially airing their differences in a joint press conference. Last week Jiang refused to take Clinton's phone calls. "Without question," says a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington, "this marks the low point in relations since 1972," the year Richard Nixon visited China. When Madeleine Albright went to the Chinese embassy in Washington to offer her apologies, Ambassador Li kept her waiting in an anteroom for 20 minutes, then pointedly told her he had been busy "receiving condolences from all over the world...
...anger unleashed by the bombing had deeper roots, coming from a sense of resentment and impotence in China at the predominance of U.S. power in world affairs. On his way to the historic meeting with Mao in 1972, Nixon jotted down in his diary, "What they want: 1. Build up their world credentials. 2. Taiwan. 3. Get U.S. out of Asia." A quarter-century later, China is still struggling with these goals, and the U.S. is the omnipresent bogeyman, criticizing China's political regime, providing military support to Taiwan and maintaining 80,000 troops in Japan and South Korea. Last...
...HRUSKA, 94, former conservative Senator from Nebraska; in Omaha. A longtime ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee before retiring in 1976, Hruska relentlessly opposed gun control and led the fight to restore the death penalty for various federal crimes. Among his most memorable battles: defending Harrold Carswell, a Nixon Supreme Court nominee accused by Democrats of being mediocre. "Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers," said Hruska. "They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they...