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...Sam Wasson, author of a Bob Fosse biography and the reckonable Hollywood: The Oral History, has deftly judged the moment....
...But I’m more eagerly looking forward to Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, which stars Marisa Abela....
...Throughout the cold war, the cohesion of the western alliance was regularly rocked by complaints about the US acting solely in its own economic interests, from Richard Nixon’s decision to abandon the link...
...Mary Celeste Beall, proprietor of Blackberry Farm “A year after [my husband] Sam died, someone said ‘you have to put your cape on first’....
...In her Downtown Los Angeles studio, the furniture designer Sam Klemick spends hours hovering over a Douglas fir beam, sweeping the ragged surface with her beloved metal detector for gleaming heads of screws...
...Sam and Sam Clark, Moro chefs“Small-batch mezcal from El Destilado and tequilas from The Sampler on Upper Street....
...The Watergate hearings, led by North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin, lasted for months, drew in a large audience and didn’t face much Republican dissent....
...Michael Shannon — Elvis & Nixon (2016) It might have once seemed a stretch for Kevin Spacey to play a slimy villain like Richard Nixon, but that was nothing compared to Michael Shannon’s apparent miscasting...
...Sam Spruell matches her closely as Father Flynn....
...And, giving the elephant (and her operators, Zoe Halliday, Wela Mbusi and Suzanne Nixon) a run for her money as the human star of the show is Jack Wolfe’s excellent Peter....
...What else we’re reading Three questions from the Nixon era for Joe Biden August marks the 50th anniversary of a momentous event: Richard Nixon, then the US president, summoned his advisers to Camp David...
...As Treasury under secretary for monetary affairs, he attended the top secret meeting at Camp David in August 1971 at which President Richard Nixon approved the dollar devaluation that effectively ended the...
...William Safire wrote Richard Nixon a speech — happily, never delivered — for just that eventuality....
...But it’s all Sam Rockwell, so he exudes charisma even when bald and squinting over his ever-present cigarette....
...Culture The making of 1970s classic Chinatown is anatomised in The Big Goodbye by Sam Wasson (Faber RRP£14.99/Flatiron Books RRP$28.99, February)....
...Most notoriously, former Fed chairman Arthur Burns was pressured by the Nixon administration to keep the cost of borrowing cheap....
...Sam Leith is author of ‘Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama’...
...The New York Daily News has the screaming headline: “Open Treason” next to a cartoon of Trump shooting Uncle Sam in the head while holding Putin’s hand....
...In that guise, Mr Bolton helped rip up the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, a landmark in arms control negotiated in 1972 with the then Soviet Union by Richard Nixon....
...Obstruction of justice is a highly charged issue in US presidential history: both Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton faced the accusation....
...He had an even shorter tenure than Mr Priebus under Richard Nixon’s successor, Gerald Ford....
...Sam Fleming, Financial Times, Washington, DC....
...No one would want a replay of Arthur Burns’ torrid time under Nixon in the run-up to the 1972 election. Finally, the Fed will face considerable challenges in the next downturn....
...Mr Dershowitz said Mr Trump would have had to do something illegal — such as ordering his aides to lie to the FBI, as Richard Nixon did — to be guilty of obstruction....
...Richard Nixon pressured Arthur Burns to keep rates low in the early 1970s, for example....
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