Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burned down the house to roast the pig." Borrowing this image from English Essayist Charles Lamb, an aghast White House official summed up the most extraordinary week in the White House since Richard Nixon resigned in 1974. In four days, Jimmy Carter dismantled the leadership of his Government by demanding the resignations of his top 34 Cabinet and staff aides. And then?the chairs of power theoretically empty?he set about firing those he deemed ineffective, disloyal, political liabilities, annoyances to his closest associates, or all of the above...
However, John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Econom Emeritus, said yesterday the nomination of a conservative does not guarantee reduced inflation. "Bear in mind that the worst inflation has occurred under the staunch conservatives Nixon and Ford," he said...
Will the person with the solution to the energy crisis please stand up, show yourself and be elected President? It doesn't matter if it's Crane, Carter, Brown, Reagan, Connally, Bush, Baker, Nixon or Ford. The person with the answer can be elected President...
Finally, here was someone who could fully sympathize with the loss that Mohammed Reza Pahlavi had suffered and the trauma he was enduring. Emerging from his own exile at San Clemente, Richard Nixon flew to Mexico to spend the day with the Shah of Iran in Cuernavaca. Explained Nixon to newsmen: "You don't grease the skids for your friends...
...WILLINGNESS TO FORGIVE and forget past sins is a peculiar American habit. Ask Richard Nixon, elected to the White House six years after giving a creditable impression of a psychotic in the wake of the California gubernatorial election...