Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tuesday, December 5 The Crimson published an editorial condemning the Harvard republican club for inviting former President Richard M. Nixon to speak here next spring. We were described as being "opportunistic" and we were also insured that "it would, in short, be a damned shame and an insult" were Mr. Nixon to address a Harvard audience...
There are many reasons for inviting Richard Nixon to address the Harvard community: two in particular should be commented on here. First, President Nixon represented a special movement within the Republican Party, and demonstrated an ability to bring liberal and conservative Republicans into the same administration. He inaugurated the first negative income tax and developed the concept of revenue sharing. He has always been well respected abroad, ending the Vietnam War and opening the door to China. In terms of policy, he is a very important figure in our era and very bit as educational as other public officials routinely...
...would also like to note that no members of The Crimson Editorial Board contacted the Executive Board of the Republican Club before year editorial appeared in order to obtain our reasons for inviting Mr. Nixon. To describe our actions as being "opportunistic" is indeed insulting when it represents purely uninformed and biased opinion. We hope the Editorial Board will in the future be more responsible in expressing its opinions and try harder to show all viewpoints before commenting on any particular issue. Michael T. Kerr...
...Costa Rica in 1953 at age 36. He was sent to El Salvador the following year and to Mexico City from 1957 to 1961. Returning to private business, he also served on the Republican National Committee's foreign policy task force, and was sent to Madrid when President Nixon took office. Hill was assigned to Argentina in 1974 and retired last year after surviving unhurt a terrorist attack in Buenos Aires...
Protesting university students, 100 strong, hurled eggs, bottles and epithets at the black limousine. British bobbies and U.S. Secret Service men punched, kicked and wrestled with demonstrators as the visitor scurried inside the Oxford Union Society hall. There, before a vastly more appreciative audience, Richard M. Nixon told 800 guests of Oxford University's prestigious debating society that the crowd outside made him feel "very much at home" and that "I have retired from politics, but I have not retired from life." Nixon addressed the society near the end of a week-long trip to France and England...