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Somewhat trite and rhetorical comments indeed, to describe the national trauma left in the wake of the Watergate scandals. But these words from a moderate upstate New York Republican congressman represent the sort of thinking that very well may have Richard Nixon standing trial before the Senate by mid-summer...
The Secretary believes in taking what he calls a "conceptual approach" to negotiations: he tries to consider not problems or areas but the overall perspective. He carefully judges how far each side in his negotiations is prepared to go. He also tries to avoid getting bogged down in either minute...
Nixon was even more forceful in vowing once again that he would not resign. "Resignation is an easy cop-out," he declared, adopting his frequent rhetorical device of posing an artificially easy-or-tough choice. "But resignation of this President on charges of which he is not guilty simply because...
Appearing with Alabama Governor George Wallace at an "Honor America Day" in Huntsville, Nixon was warmly received by a crowd of 25,000. "God bless you, Mr. President-you are among friends," Wallace said. Nixon could not resist a gross rhetorical alteration of reality in blaming the press and political...
Perhaps in recognition of that unhappy fact, Washington has been talking about the Mexico City meeting in rather guarded terms. Notably missing has been any grand verbal sweep of the Yankee sombrero-the rhetorical overkill that, for instance, heralded the southern tour of Kissinger's predecessor William Rogers as...