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...begun serving in the Senate before the Republican leadership started fighting over whether the 1952 presidential nomination should go to conservative Senator Robert Taft or to the immensely popular General Dwight Eisenhower. The convention was in danger of deadlocking, in which case it might turn to California Governor Earl Warren. That was certainly Warren's plan, and all the California delegates, including Nixon, were pledged to back him. In some complicated maneuvering, though, the Eisenhower forces put forward a resolution that would give them a number of disputed Southern delegations. Nixon, who had already been sounded out as a running...
...President need not immerse himself in the details of foreign policy to conduct it successfully. But one who does not then requires a strong team to run things, and that Clinton does not have. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Lake are intelligent, hard-working and well informed, but neither is exactly a take-charge guy. Perry has tried to step into the vacuum, but he has made some impolitic statements that clashed embarrassingly with evolving policy...
...third option would extend MFN with less rigorous trip wires. "Perhaps human rights could be a general condition rather than one that's filled with specific conditions," said Secretary of State Warren Christopher on March 13. Any compromise, he added, could "move the relationship to a new and more significant level." And a more hypocritical one as well...
...Race. Deion Sanders thinks this a key reason--and I believe him. Despite the accomplishments of Doug Williams, Randall Cunningham and Warren Moon, a racist myth prevails: blacks aren't smart enough to be quarterbacks. They lack the "necessities," as Dodger executive Al Campaigns once put it, referring go black managers...
...young team," Assistant Coach Warren Smith said. "It has been a varsity sport for just a year, so it's a building process. We're much stronger than we were last spring. Hopefully, we'll be able to contend soon and do something with this young team...