Word: ronald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President were John Wayne, James Stewart, Pat Boone and Charlton Heston. Although an incumbent President can readily command a surface loyalty, it was no small achievement for Nixon to hear himself praised from the rostrum in strikingly similar terms by Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan and Ed Brooke. The smiling faces of such onetime villains as China's Chou En-lai and Russia's Leonid Brezhnev flashed on the convention screen in happy toasts with Nixon, and there was not a hiss in the hall...
Liberals were hardly satisfied with this arrangement and submitted a proposal of their own to enlarge the delegations from the big states. But they ran into opposition not only from small-state conservatives but also from big-state conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and James Buckley, who do not want to jeopardize control even if it means less clout for their delegations...
...youths responded with an enthusiasm that seemed contagious. Their shouts of "We want Pat" kept a pleased Pat Nixon from acknowledging an overblown James Stewart-narrated tribute for twelve minutes. They repeatedly interrupted Barry Goldwater and waved such age-bridging signs as RON BABY, WE LOVE YOU at Ronald Reagan. They released even more of their lung power every time their unlikely hero, Richard Nixon, appeared in public. "Nixon now, more than ever! Nixon now, more than ever!" went...
...later, he issued a statement saying that Salinger had indeed met with the North Vietnamese on his behalf, but only to make a middle-level inquiry about the possibility of prisoner release. Immediately, however, the White House claimed that McGovern's efforts could undermine the negotiations. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said such contacts "could jeopardize the President's efforts to reach peace in Viet...
...chromosome, which carries hundreds of genetic instructions to offspring of both sexes. Three years ago, investigators at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis reported "presumptive evidence" that an anomalous gene on the X chromosome is associated with the emotional disorder. The new and more definite evidence comes from Dr. Ronald R. Fieve and colleagues at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center...