Word: nixonize
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...Nixon was President when Moonshadow came out. How did you get into this music...
...voted for Bush, expecting fiscal responsibility and nothing like a war in Iraq. Richard Nixon was forced to resign after he lied about Watergate. Now it appears that Bush misled us about the reasons for attacking Iraq. Impeachment proceedings should have begun. Why must U.S. troops remain as an occupying force in Iraq? Are we in for another Vietnam? Fred Bushnell Pfalzgrafenweiler, Germany...
...communist victory to set up what he envisaged as a Chinese government-in-exile in Taiwan. Chiang, whose U.S.-educated wife was his interlocutor with the West, ruled Taiwan with an iron fist for 25 years, and it was his claim to represent all of China that helped the Nixon administration adopt the "One China" policy recognizing Taiwan and China as part of a single political entity. That policy, which remains the cornerstone of U.S.-China relations today, prevents Washington from recognizing Taiwan as a sovereign state, and was crafted as a concession to Beijing's view of the island...
...read the letter, I thought to myself, does Moore really know Wesley Clark? Does he know the Clark who backed the campaigns of Nixon, Reagan, and Bush I, and even showed support for Bush II? Does he know that Clark is up in the air on affirmative action policy, opposes gays serving openly in the military, and is not very critical of the Patriot Act? Or that he’s in favor of nominating Supreme Court justices with “moderate views” and increasing military spending? Or that he has provided almost no plans or promises...
...Thailand Lyndon Johnson stopped by twice during the Vietnam War; Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton also called. Before air travel, the two countries nurtured a long-distance friendship. In 1861, King Rama IV offered the U.S. a gift of Thai elephants, which, he said, could be "turned loose in forests and increase till there be large herds." Abraham Lincoln graciously declined, saying the elephants wouldn't survive North American winters...