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...campaign signs. He stumped Rhode Island's crowded beaches so diligently that sunburn sidelined him for a few days. "I'm nobody's man but the people's," Beard would say, proclaiming his honesty, his solidarity with his fellow workingman and his interest in the plight of the elderly...
...claims that he had been hounded from office would have been laid to rest. Richard Nixon may well testify at the future trials of other, less privileged Watergate principals, and at that time he could still reveal the details of the unending Watergate story. The Sabbath pardon eased the plight of the man who received it, but gravely complicated the future of the man who granted it, Gerald R. Ford...
...President Flivver has proposed that draft dodgers and deserters be allowed to work their way back into American society. I agree. May I suggest 20 years' hard labor with time off for good behavior, and for the men responsible for their plight may I suggest burning in hell forever...
...plight of the drug smugglers will undoubtedly evoke many letters from sob sisters and bleeding hearts, but mine isn't one of them. They deserve everything they get and then some. I much prefer the treatment handed out here hi Iran for dealers in hard drugs. They put 'em against a wall and shoot 'em. Long live the Shah...
...Nixon consistently failed to appeal to the better natures of American citizens; he gave undue aid and comfort to the narrow and meanspirited. Acutely conscious that middle-and low-income whites alike were resentful of the special efforts that were being made to ease the plight of America's 20 million blacks, Nixon adopted a hands-off approach. His textual justification, wrenched out of its context, was Moynihan's statement that "the time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect." Moynihan was saying not only that the issue...