Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy. Thus Carter also risked alienating important Democratic constituencies?labor, blacks, liberals generally. But the Administration's economic team put the program together adroitly, with a sense of drama that won cheers from the world business community and provoked the most volcanic response on financial markets since Richard Nixon's surprise announcement of a wage-price freeze in 1971. The essence of the program: massive intervention on exchange markets to prop up the dollar and a switch to a really tough anti-inflation policy...
Griffin is attacking his opponent as a free-spending Democrat who would add to "the high cost of Levin." The Senator reminds voters of how he helped block Lyndon Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas as U.S. Chief Justice in 1968 and Richard Nixon's nomination of Clement Haynsworth to the Supreme Court in 1969. Griffin also stresses, in current TV ads, the fight he made this year against the Panama Canal Treaties. Says he: "Next year I'll have even more seniority and my no will be even louder." Levin responds by scathingly calling Griffin "Senator No Show...
...basic problem is still Taiwan, just as it was when Richard Nixon began the normalization of relations with China six years ago. The Communists insist that the U.S. close its embassy in Taipei, abrogate its 24-year-old mutual defense treaty with Nationalist China, and accept the Communist claim that the offshore stronghold is simply a province of the People's Republic. "We are talking about recognition," Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiaoping said during his current visit to Tokyo, but "on these three conditions we are waiting for the U.S. to make up its mind...
DIVORCED. John D. Ehrlichman, 53, author (The Company) and White House domestic affairs chief under Richard Nixon; and Jeanne Ehrlichman, 51; after 29 years of marriage; in Santa...
...starters, Silberman points out that crime is "as American as Jesse James." Abraham Lincoln called internal violence America's biggest problem well over a century ago; Herbert Hoover anticipated Richard Nixon's law-and-order campaign by four decades; an 1872 guidebook to New York City warned tourists to avoid Central Park after sundown. What was abnormal was a quarter-century of stable or declining crime rates between the end of Prohibition and 1960, an era that ended when the baby boom produced a huge generation of 14-to 24-year-olds, the prime age for crime...