Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Jiang Zemin stood side by side in Beijing cordially airing their differences in a joint press conference. Last week Jiang refused to take Clinton's phone calls. "Without question," says a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington, "this marks the low point in relations since 1972," the year Richard Nixon visited China. When Madeleine Albright went to the Chinese embassy in Washington to offer her apologies, Ambassador Li kept her waiting in an anteroom for 20 minutes, then pointedly told her he had been busy "receiving condolences from all over the world...
...HRUSKA, 94, former conservative Senator from Nebraska; in Omaha. A longtime ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee before retiring in 1976, Hruska relentlessly opposed gun control and led the fight to restore the death penalty for various federal crimes. Among his most memorable battles: defending Harrold Carswell, a Nixon Supreme Court nominee accused by Democrats of being mediocre. "Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers," said Hruska. "They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they...
...some reason, the articles since Nixon's presidency just don't seem quite as funny--maybe it's harder to laugh at something that happened in your own time. Then again, with articles such as "Homeless Catch on to 'Grunge' Trend" (describing a man without a job: "'Right now, I'm on disability,' he says, echoing the anti-mainstream, 'no sellout' ethos of bands like Pearl Jam and Nirvana") and "New President Feels Nation's Pain, Breasts," maybe...
...Premise The film follows the travails of two teenage girls (Kirsten Dunst of such films as Wag the Dog and Michelle Williams of Dawson's Creek) who take a wrong turn on a White House tour and stumble onto some presidential secrets. Worried about what they might know, President Nixon (Dan Hedaya) offers them jobs as dog-walkers. Suddenly, the witless pair find themselves embroiled in the Watergate controversy...
From 1973 to 1979, Dole was a member of the Federal Trade Commission. Between 1971 and 1973 she worked as President Nixon's Deputy Assistant for Consumer Affairs...