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...anything like it again. But here before him was a similar scene. Nixon came to Wright's seat and shook his hand. Then he reached back into that crammed cerebrum and recalled the time when Wright had sponsored a resolution calling for a peaceful settlement of the Viet Nam War.'Nixon was still grateful...
...familiarly known to all Greeks-return to his native land and develop an interest in politics. Shortly thereafter he renounced his U.S. citizenship. Says Athens Publisher Helen Vlachos, a longtime foe: "His is the anti-Americanism of an American, not of a Greek. He is like a Viet Nam War protester...
Veterans Benefits. The great-granddaddy of all entitlements, this program pays benefits for both service-connected and non-service-connected disabilities to veterans of conflicts ranging from the Spanish-American War to Viet Nam, some of whom served for as little as 90 days, plus their widows and dependents. Roughly 5 million people are collecting $11 billion a year, and their lobby is so powerful that the Reagan Administration has proposed no changes whatever...
...disclosed tape. The recording, of a five-minute conversation between Nixon and Haldeman, was made on the White House taping system in May 1971. The subject: a plan to bring in what Haldeman called Teamster "thugs" to intimidate demonstrators then descending by the thousands on Washington to protest the Viet Nam War. The transcript was revealed last week by freelance Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh in the New York Times. It strongly suggests that Nixon authorized illegal operations by White House subordinates to counter growing antiwar protests and silence political enemies...
Entering Congress, Jones decided to focus on the economic indexes. "We live by those figures," he says. He had seen the stress as a White House aide, when L.B.J. tried to finesse the costs of his Great Society and the Viet Nam War by refusing to push for higher taxes. The resulting huge increase in the national debt helped set off today's inflation. When Jones was named House budget boss he spent several days on Wall Street listening to its leaders. "Not many of them knew much about Government," he says But an overwhelming number measured the Government...