Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unassuming piece of paper at first glance, the 81/2" x 11" leaf is the only written record of one of the most critical sessions held in the Oval Office during the Nixon Administration. The hermit of San Clemente uttered these words on September 15, 1970, in the presence of three people who swung a lot of weight around in those days, Nixon's trusted crony and then Attorney General John Mitchell, his national security affairs adviser Henry Kissinger '50, and a comparatively unfamiliar face around the West Wing of the White House, then CIA director Richard Helms. The notes belong...
...broader perspective. He cites Japan as one industrialized, oil-starved nation which has avoized any complicity in the arms market, but he does not study this anomaly in order to offer any morals to the rest of the world. In a similar vein, he outlines former President Richard M. Nixon's mistake in granting the Shah's colossal arms requests, but he fails to explore the deeper diplomatic ramifications of the arms trade. Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-Wash.) often cites the importance of the arms industries in providing jobs, but Sampson never uses the simple federal budget analyses which...
...deal. A few of the staff members who came along with L.B.J. left the impression that if they were defied, the offender's tax records or FBI dossier would end up in Johnson's nighttime reading. We barely survived the season of California narrowness; around Nixon's White House, anyone who did not act, think, look and smell like a U.S.C. fraternity man was considered a candidate for the enemies list...
Jody Powell, the other principal staff strategist in the Lance affair, turned out to have some of the Machiavellian instincts of Nixon's Ziegler-and about the same skill -when he tried to send newsmen chasing after Chuck Percy on a provably false charge. Surely there have been times in the past when presidential press secretaries have called up newsmen and suggested they check out rumors of wrong-doing by Senators. But that sort of thing is probably done less in reality than in the Washington novels...
...heart attack; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Magruder was a test pilot for the B-52 bomber and played a major role in developing the L-1011 airbus. Although he argued forcefully for the SST, the program was defeated in 1971, and he became a special technology consultant to President Nixon, spurring increased Government fund- ing for mass transit, energy research and highway safety projects. In 1973 Magruder resigned to become executive vice president of Piedmont Aviation...