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...appease those of you in places like Cincinnati or Phoenix -- possibly it is merely the best in New Jersey. But this isn't a position you would want to argue on Seventh Avenue, where the people hurrying between the shop and their double-parked cars tend to be staunch Giordano's loyalists...
...most visible Vice President of the 20th century, and the most successful." Indeed, Nixon took principled stands during the late '40s and into the '50s that demanded true courage: he supported the Marshall Plan when his constituents complained about throwing away more money in Europe, and he was a staunch enemy of segregation and a champion of civil rights. But life as Eisenhower's Vice President cramped Nixon as much as it exalted him. Ambrose, who has also written a two-volume biography of Ike, catches the tensions in this relationship perfectly: "After ordering Nixon to take the low road...
...into it was me." Last December he closed the deal for about $5 million and has begun modest restoration work on some of the rental cabins. Says Mac McDonald, managing editor of the Carmel Pine Cone: "What really surprised people was that he bought it to preserve it." Concedes Staunch Foe Swain: "It was a magnificent thing that...
...political climate is also propitious for overhauling the welfare system. AFDC is such a mess that, as presently administered, it has few staunch defenders. Liberals and conservatives, despite continued squabbling, have reached a rare measure of agreement on at least the essentials of a reform plan. That agreement is seconded by most welfare recipients; the New York report, like most other studies, finds that "evidence from around the country indicates that most people who receive public assistance would rather work." The task during the period of experimentation that is beginning is to find the best and most practicable...
Though McCain is a staunch conservative on most matters, befitting a successor to Goldwater, he is something of an independent on foreign policy. He supports sanctions against South Africa and favors military aid to the Nicaraguan contras but strongly opposes direct U.S. intervention in Central America. McCain has curbed his formidable temper but not his irreverent humor: he got off one of the best quips of the campaign at Goldwater's expense. McCain recalled Goldwater's saying that if he had been elected President in 1964 and had put his hawkish policies into effect, McCain would never have wound...