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The hard-liners have been circulating a six-page platform that might have been written by Joseph Stalin himself. The document blasts the "revisionist" reform policies adopted after August 1980, when the Solidarity labor movement was launched, and calls socialist. a drastic purge of party moderates. While it cautions against...
Monday evening, April 30, Nixon went on television and, in a distraught presentation, announced the wholesale purge of his Administration. It was impossible to believe that this rattled man could be ushering in a new era. His words were self-exculpatory; his demeanor did not convince one of his innocence...
This whitewashing of America was partly accomplished by the purge of President Nixon during the Watergate "farce," Chomsky argues. Instead of prosecuting Nixon for his "serious crimes--the merciless bombings of Laos and Cambodia and the murderous 'pacification' campaigns in South Vietnam..." Americans chased their President from office in the...
Roosevelt's animosity now turned against the Senate. By the most favorable interpretation, the President wanted to remold the Democratic Party into a unified liberal movement, and he had to do it before his prospective retirement from the White House in 1940. Critics simply called it a "purge" of...
The purge was as embarrassing a failure as the court-packing scheme. All nine Senators won re-election in 1938. Hardly less embarrassing was the fact that a recession in 1937-38, caused partly by Roosevelt's efforts to restrict Government spending, set back the recovery. Unemployment rose by...