Word: republicanizing
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There are many reasons for inviting Richard Nixon to address the Harvard community: two in particular should be commented on here. First, President Nixon represented a special movement within the Republican Party, and demonstrated an ability to bring liberal and conservative Republicans into the same administration. He inaugurated the first negative income tax and developed the concept of revenue sharing. He has always been well respected abroad, ending the Vietnam War and opening the door to China. In terms of policy, he is a very important figure in our era and very bit as educational as other public officials routinely...
...would also like to note that no members of The Crimson Editorial Board contacted the Executive Board of the Republican Club before year editorial appeared in order to obtain our reasons for inviting Mr. Nixon. To describe our actions as being "opportunistic" is indeed insulting when it represents purely uninformed and biased opinion. We hope the Editorial Board will in the future be more responsible in expressing its opinions and try harder to show all viewpoints before commenting on any particular issue. Michael T. Kerr...
...task of removing the bodies from Guyana and embalming them was expensive, but the Government would not yet predict the total costs. The fact that U.S. taxpayers were bearing the cost upset at least two Congressmen, Illinois Republican Philip Crane and Rhode Island Democrat Edward Beard. They publicly protested the use of federal funds (unofficial estimates of the cost have run as high as $8 million) to transport and process the decayed remains. Said Crane: "Although the entire situation is deplorable, the responsibility to bring the loved ones back to the United States rests with the families, not the Federal...
...Grace & Co., Hill became the youngest ambassador in American history when he was appointed envoy to Costa Rica in 1953 at age 36. He was sent to El Salvador the following year and to Mexico City from 1957 to 1961. Returning to private business, he also served on the Republican National Committee's foreign policy task force, and was sent to Madrid when President Nixon took office. Hill was assigned to Argentina in 1974 and retired last year after surviving unhurt a terrorist attack in Buenos Aires...
Nancy Landon Kassebaum, newly elected Republican Senator from Kansas, on her father Alfred Landon, presidential candidate in 1936: "For someone who loves to give advice, he stayed out of it [Kassebaum's campaign] pretty well...