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...Richard Nixon it was the Checkers Speech. For Bill Clinton it was a sunglasses-and-sax appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. Desperate political times call for desperate measures, and in the case of California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides, that time is now. With only seven days until the election, he trails Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger by as many as 18 points in the most recent polls...
...decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took place in London 1956-1966 New sounds in the air, protest in the streets and revolution in the hills 1966-1976 War in Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon will also come in a way we still cannot imagine, because we are fighting an enemy we have never met. Suicide bombers are supposed to be 17-year-old zealots with nothing to live for but the hope of a martyr's welcome...
...most vivid memories of being a Harvard undergraduate was watching TV with friends when the Nixon administration introduced the draft ‘lottery’ and they drew the numbers (by birth date) of whom would be called up first, as if it were a game show," Rich writes in an e-mail to The Crimson...
...Woodward, half of the reporting team that broke the Watergate scandal which toppled the Nixon administration, stopped in Cambridge last night to answer questions about his book, “State of Denial,” the third in his investigative series on the Bush administration. The Harvard Book Store sponsored the sold-out event, held at First Parish Church, and the Cantabrigian crowd applauded Woodward’s critiques of the White House’s management of the Iraq war. Using previously undisclosed memoranda and an unprecedented access to Bush and high-ranking members of his administration, Woodward?...
This White House is certainly not the first Administration to milk religious groups for votes and then boot them unceremoniously back out to pasture. In his days as a notorious "hatchet man" for President Richard M. Nixon, before he had allowed Jesus to transform his life, Chuck Colson used to oversee outreach to the religious community. "I arranged special briefings in the Roosevelt Room for religious leaders, ushered wide-eyed denominational leaders into the Oval Office for private sessions with the President," Colson later wrote. "Of all the groups I dealt with, I found religious leaders the most naive about...