Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ANGELES--Former President Richard M. Nixon yesterday left on his third trip to China without his wife and the fanfare that accompanies him on previous trips. The Chinese government extended an invitation to Nixon 18 months ago, but the normalization of relations between the United States and China delayed the trip...
...plan to see some of the Chinese leaders and to spend all of my time in Peking," Nixon said yesterday before leaving. "The purpose is solely to be brought up to date on Chinese-American relations," he added...
...great wealth. The son of immigrant servants, he was informally adopted by his parents' millionaire employer, raised as a gentleman and sent off to Harvard. In his early 60s, after an on-and-off career in Government service, he finds himself buried in an obscure job with the Nixon White House. So remote is his office that it becomes the perfect hiding place for a trunk containing a million dollars in unlaundered bills. Starbuck is sent off to a minimum-security prison in Georgia, the least heralded co-conspirator in all of Watergate. He muses later: "It was like...
...loose and baggy enough to give Vonnegut plenty of leg room, and he strolls about at will. He offers a lengthy account, for instance, of the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti and of their subsequent executions in the 1920s. Not all of the digressions are somber. Starbuck meets Nixon and finds the President's smile "like a rosebud that had just been smashed by a hammer." The hero's meditations on money are childlike enough to produce odd insights. On his first morning of freedom, Starbuck leaves his seedy hotel to buy a newspaper. He then...
Chrysler hired a lobbying army of some of the most sophisticated and experienced mercenaries in Washington. Among them were William Timmons, lobbyist for both Nixon and Ford; Joe Waggonner, who retired last year from his position as ranking Southerner on the Ways and Means Committee so he would "have more time to spend with his family"; and Tommy Boggs, son of the former House Majority Leader, Hale Boggs, and lobbying quarterback for a team of more than 50 lawyers in the firm of Patten, Boggs and Blow. In addition, Chrysler's own executives are reputed to have met with over...