Word: richard
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Next morning, Gargan and Markham joined Kennedy at the inn. They returned to Chappaquiddick at about 9 a.m. and entered a shack near the ferry slip, where Kennedy tried in vain to phone a family friend, Attorney Burke Marshall. At that point, Ferryman Richard Hewitt asked if they knew about the wrecked car, which had been discovered by some fishermen. Hewitt later testified that Markham replied, "Yes. We just heard about it." Only then did Kennedy go to the police station and report the accident...
...transcript of a conversation in the Oval Office, Richard Nixon comes off as alternately aggressive and defensive, attacking the Democrats and then justifying his own campaign tactics. Just another snippet of dialogue from the White House tapes that unwound Nixon's presidency? No, the conversation was taped on June 29, 1954, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who told then Vice President Nixon that his ''castigation'' of the Democrats was damaging the Administration's efforts to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy...
...trucked to dump sites for burial. However, some of the containers have leaked, either underground or in transit, and dump sites have been closed in Hanford, Wash., and Beatty, Nev. This leaves only one dump in the entire country that still accepts nonmilitary atomic trash, and South Carolina Governor Richard Riley has closed that site, at Barnwell, to wastes brought in from out of state...
...Remember, he was tough. Very, very tough. Even the opposition respected him and understood this.'' So said former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Richard Sneider last week about the man who made his poverty-afflicted country a model of economic development. Aloof, authoritarian and disdainful, Park Chung Hee demanded respect, not popularity. And that is what...
Among the most persistent detractors was Richard Nixon. In his 1968 law-and-order campaign for the presidency, he accused the Supreme Court of ''weakening the peace forces in society and strengthening the criminal forces.'' If elected, he promised, he would fill Supreme Court vacancies with ''strict constructionists,'' a description generally taken to mean conservatives...