Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enemies over the Panama Canal and Taiwan issues, and they are sure to mass forces for SALT II. Minority Leader Howard H. Baker (R-Tenn.) served notice two weeks ago that the GOP is declaring open season on Carter's foreign policy, ending the "bipartisan foreign policy" of the Nixon-Ford years. Meanwhile, groups ranging from the Committee on the Present Danger to the Coalition for Peace Through Strength are already lining up against the treaty, making plans to pour $10 million into an all-out campaign to defeat...
Colson's Law. If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.−Poster alleged to have hung in the office of former Nixon Aide Chuck Colson...
...them on two legs at a time, leaping high and accomplishing the maneuver in midair. The networks sold all available time to the underarm and antifreeze boys and predicted the biggest TV audience in history. Brezhnev said let Teng put that in his cowboy hat. Learned scholars and Richard Nixon pointed out how football was a game that symbolized the essence of the American character. The Americans practiced in a veritable frenzy of patriotism. Terry Bradshaw strengthened his passing hand by squeezing the milk out of coconut shells. "No more Mr. Nice Guy," vowed Mean Joe Greene. O.J. Simpson promised...
...Carter, as for those who framed the original China policies in the wake of Nixon's visit in 1972, the exchange of diplomatic relations formed the cornerstone of a new Asian policy. With that exchange--the playing of the "China card"--the United States seemed to have achieved a major foreign policy objective--that of re-entering the Asian continental political arena...
...American Shipbuilding Company, Steinbrenner's vocation, had some problems with the government. A longtime contributor to the Democratic Party, Steinbrenner knew about political finance, so when Herbert Kalmbach asked for a little help for his boss, the meaning was clear. So Steinbrenner generously opened his wallet for Richard Nixon in 1972. Illegally. And he got caught...