Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waterway became inextricably entangled with the matter of American strength and pride-of patriotism v. surrender. Yet for all the opposition, the pact has the backing of a very wide spectrum of informed opinion, including conservatives like Bill Buckley and John Wayne. Four successive Presidents-Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and now Jimmy Carter-have backed negotiations and pushed them along. Faults may be found with an imperfect document in a not so perfect world, but its basic realism has not been questioned by those with some familiarity with the issue. Why, then, the rancorous debate? Says former Secretary...
...idea--originally Richard Nixon's--is a good one as far as it goes, even though the suburban and Sunbelt-biased formula for distributing the funds was in drastic need of the reform provided last week by the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1977. The Act shifts more money to decaying older cities and establishes an Urban Development Action Grant Program to aid the economic development of downtown areas...
...that sounds like an urban policy, it isn't, at least not the kind that should be expected from a Democratic President who stresses compassion. Merely correcting Nixon's errors hardly constitutes the necessary approach. That's why Carter's comment during his South Bronx visit--that we should try to work within existing programs--is so disappointing. It indicates that he has taken to heart the view that the failure of former President Lyndon B. Johnson's programmatic, co-ordinated response to urban problems has precluded the possibility of a similar effort today--even though such an effort would...
...starting gate on Watergate, gave the front-page spotlight to Lance even on days when there was no story about him that deserved such treatment. There is a difference between pursuing the facts and going after a man. The end also did not ennoble William Safire, the Nixon speechwriter turned columnist who seeks to establish-with the repetitious use of labels like Lancegate -that all politicians are as shabby as Nixon. Cheap-shot comparisons are an old and dubious journalistic device: as if two people who share one trait can be said to share them all. New York magazine...
...peculiar, almost prurient interest in their parents' personal lives, but only in books published long after Franklin and Eleanor had died. Margaret Truman's singing career might not have occurred without a father in the White House, but she earned painfully mixed reviews from it. F. Donald Nixon engaged in some murky financing on the strength of his brother's name...