Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Said Haldeman, Richard Nixon's former chief of staff, in the same monotone that characterized his congressional and courtroom testimony: "I'm sorry for what I've done, for what I've been responsible for, for what's been the result and the damage to many, many people and I think to our whole governmental system." In a letter that Haldeman sent to Sirica before he was sentenced last June, he wrote: "I recognize the terrible cost to the nation that this whole Watergate case has represented, and I will carry for the rest...
Jimmy Carter's idea of leadership may be founded to a disturbing degree on the impressions he picked up watching the Today show as Nixon walked along the Great Wall of China and dined in the Kremlin. Foreign policy critics of the Administration feel that much of the world uncertainty during Carter's first nine months has been brought about by his frenetic search for equally dramatic events that would spotlight his skill in international affairs. In some parts of the White House' there is, indeed, the brittle atmosphere of a script shop with people designing scenarios...
There was some surprise at the Administration's move to bring the Russians back into the Middle East diplomacy so soon; after all, the Nixon-Kissinger policy had been to curb sharply Soviet influence in the region. But Kissinger himself has noted that Moscow would have to be brought back into the arena eventually. Says a State Department official: "The Soviets are not an ornament in the Middle East. We simply cannot reconvene Geneva without one of the co-chairmen." If Geneva collapses or is never reconvened at all, critics of the Administration will undoubtedly argue that the Russians will...
Birsh has by far the most difficult role and he comes up with mixed results. His insane ravings are often touching or comic, but the role is somewhat difficult to maintain. At times he reaches deep pathos and then he degenerates into a take-off of David Frye's Nixon. He has excellent lines with which to work but he still needs to develop a true feeling of what insanity is like...
...tyrannical Supreme Court is basically under the control of five judges, four of whom were appointed by Nixon," Kunstler said. He said the Court has largely destroyed the Bill of Rights...