Word: nixons
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...Nixon was a Washington Senators fan until eight years ago. When the team left town in 1971, Nixon pronounced himself "heartbroken" and switched loyalties to his "home town" Angels, whose Anaheim stadium is 35 miles from San Clemente. True to his word, the former President has shown up regularly at Angel games, autographing baseballs and copies of his memoirs. This year he bought four season tickets, and informed management: "Since you've obtained Carew we know you are making every effort to bring a winner here, and we want to support you." Nixon attended 20 games, 14 of which...
...Nixon, who invited the Angel players to a recent bash at San Clemente, studies the team stats and can fling a cliché as well as the next fan. Dave Frost, he says, is "a premier pitcher," and Jim Barr "a wily veteran." Nixon sees a low-scoring playoff series between California and Baltimore, with the Angels winning in five games. As he told TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman: "Man for man, down the lineup, I believe the Angels can match them...
...author gives an intimate look at the anguished debates and bitter wrangling within the Nixon Administration that accompanied every military move in Indochina, the efforts to end the war and how they were thwarted by Hanoi's rigid refusal for nearly four years to accept a settlement that would amount to anything less than a sellout of Saigon, the rationale behind the mining of North Viet Nam's ports and the Christmas bombing of 1972, why he declared "peace is at hand" on the eve of Nixon's reelection, his attempts to build bridges to dissident students...
White House Years, to be published on Oct. 23 (Little, Brown; 1,521 pages; $22.50), covers Kissinger's stewardship as National Security Adviser during the period following Richard Nixon's 1968 election, ending with the signing of a Viet Nam peace treaty in January 1973. A second volume, now in preparation, will recount the years to January 1977, during most of which Kissinger was Secretary of State...
...Nixon Administration entered office determined to end our involvement in Viet Nam. But it soon came up against the reality that had also bedeviled its predecessor. We could not simply walk away from an enterprise involving two Administrations, five allied countries and 31,000 American dead as if we were switching a television channel. For a great power to abandon a small country to tyranny simply to obtain a respite from our own domestic travail seemed to me-and still seems to me-profoundly immoral and destructive of our efforts to build a new and ultimately more peaceful pattern...