Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BEEN five years since Richard Nixon stepped off Air Force One into the forbidden city of Peking. The expectations of a quick renewal of the "special" historical U.S.-China relationship have not been fulfilled in the intervening period. Now, China is knocking on the closed door of United States-East Asian relations. But, as our record of contacts with the Middle Kingdom shows, the U. S. does not always listen when opportunity knocks...
Perhaps the most significant effect of Henry's move, though, could be the entrance onto the sporting scene of several former Washington stars. Taking their cue from "The Ron LeFlore Story," former Nixon administration officials could bound from the jail cells to take over the heights of the sporting world. Scrupulous H.R. Haldeman would be the logical choice to take over the Pirates, heavyweight John Mitchell might find a home in the world of high-class professional wrestling, and sentimental Charles Colson, who once vowed that he would walk over his own grandmother if the need arose, could...
Each one was a central figure during the Nixon years--Thurmond as the architect of Nixon's Southern Strategy and Helms as the leader of the rightwing charge needed to create the reactionary climate Nixon wanted...
...other Senate race, former Alabama Chief Justice Howell Heflin, 57, who remodeled the state court system, took 65% of the vote, swamping Congressman Walter Flowers, 45, whose courtly eloquence was a highlight of the Nixon impeachment proceedings in the House. While Flowers campaigned as an insider who knew his way around the nation's capital, Heflin berated him for being "part of the Washington crowd that has brought more inflation and higher taxes." Heflin, on the other hand, owed a debt to another Washingtonian. His campaign slogan was the same as Nixon's in 1972: "Now More Than...
...Cabinet Secretary Jack Watson, they are matter-of-fact summaries of bureaucratic business that took place at Cabinet meetings between March 14, 1977, and March 13, 1978. "Those boring minutes," sighed the Washington Post in a tongue-in-cheek editorial comparing them with the secret transcripts of the Nixon Administration's private moments. "It's hard to hold back the tears of nostalgia...