Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suppressed repository of whispered stories and yellowing memos written in shocked disbelief, describing Johnson's stalking the back corridors of the White House and fulminating about the enemies he saw surrounding him. Nor is such speculation confined to Johnson. In the final throes of Watergate, the tortured Richard Nixon could not focus on meetings, wandered the White House halls at night and sank to his knees in prayer with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, behavior that suggested to some that he had lost all touch with reality...
...Richard Nixon...
...erratic pattern of economic recovery has created Democratic opportunities in several states that otherwise would be counted as Republican, such as Iowa, Oregon and Colorado. Unlike Reagan and Richard Nixon, Bush has no firm ties with the West. "What scares me," says a Republican planner, "is the realization that the West is a G.O.P. stronghold but not at all a Bush stronghold." Dukakis has also benefited from the five-month hiatus in Bush's visibility after the Republican nomination was effectively settled on Super Tuesday...
...Bush was and yearns to clone now: blindly loyal and deeply grateful. Already the exuberant Quayle seems willing to run on the list of trivial traits the Bush camp keeps hailing him for: youth (if elected, he will be the third youngest Vice President, behind John Breckinridge and Richard Nixon); good looks (made for TV, not the silver screen -- Robert Redford may have had a point when he wrote to Quayle complaining about the overdone comparisons); campaign skills (Quayle has been winning elections since he was 29); and family values...
...Nixon Administration halted production in 1969 after a nerve-gas accident at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah killed more than 6,000 sheep. However, fears of an overwhelming Soviet advantage in chemical weapons led Congress to vote three years ago to resume manufacturing. As a safety measure, all new U.S. chemical weapons are made of "binary" compounds that are less toxic by themselves and can be stored and shipped separately. Only when the substances are combined, as in a fired artillery shell or an exploded ^ bomb, do they become deadly...