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...general apathy settled over campus in the early ’70s, alumni say, as the nation and the student protest movement turned inward to lick its wounds and both focused on the growing scandal surrounding Watergate and President Nixon...
...Being at Harvard, I think the majority of students of my class had a very cynical perspective of Nixon to begin with,” Feldman says...
GERALD FORD After decades of criticism, receives Profile in Courage Award for pardoning Nixon...
DIED. PHILIP W. BUCHEN, 85, scholarly lawyer and presidential adviser; in Washington. Buchen led a secret group in 1974 that spent three months developing a plan under which his old friend and law partner, Vice President Gerald Ford, would assume the presidency if Nixon were to resign. Ford had no idea the plan existed. Appointed counsel to the new President, Buchen advised him on the controversial Nixon pardon. "I could see that he had already made up his mind," Buchen said later, "and it was my job to find out how he could do it, rather than whether he should...
Despite all these caveats, Gleevec is still a breakthrough--not only for what it does but, more important, for the revolutionary strategy it represents. A full 30 years have passed since President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer and called for a national commitment comparable to the effort to land on the moon or split the atom. But over those three decades, researchers have come up with one potential miracle cure after another--only to suffer one disappointment after another. Aside from surgery, which almost invariably leaves behind some malignant cells, the standard treatment for most cancers continues...