Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate is quite different than it was while I was embattled in the midst of the controversy and while I was still subject to the unrelenting demands of the presidency itself." From this new vantage, Nixon said, he could see that those who criticized him were not all partisan enemies. "I know many fair-minded people believe that my motivations and actions in the Watergate affair were intentionally self-serving and illegal. I now understand how my own mistakes and misjudgments have contributed to that belief and seemed to support it. This burden is the heaviest...
Richard Nixon served as Dwight Eisenhower's "goodwill ambassador," visiting 54 countries, and was the Administration's partisan gut fighter, traveling the "low road" during campaigns. (Nixon, as President, assigned that job to Spiro Agnew.) But when Ike was asked in 1960, "What major decisions has your Vice President participated in?" he replied: "If you give me a week, I might think of one." John Kennedy tried, at least initially, to employ Lyndon Johnson effectively. Kennedy saw to it that Johnson presided over National Security Council meetings, appointed him to head the President's Committee on Equal...
...committee members on the nature of impeachable presidential conduct and the kind of evidence required for impeachment. As such, it was a unique guide for future Congresses, historians and constitutional scholars. The report also effectively undermined any current or future claim that Nixon was merely a victim of partisan politics or his ideological enemies...
...impeachable by the committee. Article II, alleging that Nixon had abused the powers of his office, mainly through misuse of such agencies as the FBI, CIA and IRS, as well as by initiating politically motivated wiretaps and covert investigations, was approved 29 to 9. Approved on a largely partisan 21 to 17 vote was Article III, which claimed that Nixon's failure to honor the committee's subpoenas was Impeachable...
...Half of the chosen live within what Kadushin calls "lunch distance" of New York -a 50-mile limit he considers convenient for day trips to the city. Wherever they live, these intellectuals are well paid (average income: $35,000 a year). They write most frequently in such magazines as Partisan Review, the New Republic, Commentary, Dissent and the New York Review of Books...