Word: nixonize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over. But simply having a coherent world view or merely recognizing a new reality is obviously insufficient. The hard part is getting from here to there. "And that is why Baker is so well suited to the era," % says Pete Peterson, an investment banker who served as Richard Nixon's Secretary of Commerce. "Jim plays the cards he's been dealt as well as anyone. In the '90s his hand will consist of very different cards from those of his predecessors...
...interview Friday, McGeorge Bundy, a New York University history professor and former national security advisor under the Kennedy Administration, said President Bush looks "more like Eisenhower or Ford than Reagan or Nixon" in his nuclear policy and arms control negotiation...
When Richard Nixon entered the White House in 1969, the Crimson defeated Boston University, 5-3, a few weeks later in the title game...
...consequences of U.S. intervention in Kampuchea have made a mockery of American intentions before, and they could do so again. The emergence of Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge was partly a result of misguided American policy 20 years ago. Richard Nixon's secret bombing of Kampuchea in 1969 and the CIA's support for a coup by a feckless military junta the following spring contributed to the chaos in which the Khmer Rouge thrived. In 1975 Pol Pot seized power and unleashed a holocaust...
...Bush White House: "Where are all those kids and dogs? Get 'em out here. We gotta have some action." Warning: if kids are used to get a President elected, he'd better keep them around for slow news days. Suggestion: an "urchin mobile," first discovered in China by Richard Nixon in 1972, a van that carries cute kids from camera position to camera position with changes of sweaters, hair ribbons and jump ropes inside...