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...She sat down with every US president from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama and got Nixon to admit that he wished he had destroyed the tape recordings that forced his 1974 resignation....
...Lawrence Freedman demonstrates that military commanders also have to be skilled politicians — who can adapt to the shifting demands of their political masters....
...(Richard was a fan of Richard Nixon’s, whose name Neel forbade him to utter in her presence.)...
...People such as Robert Rubin, a former Goldman Sachs partner, and Harvard scholar Lawrence Summers took the administration in a “neoliberal” direction....
...“The congresswoman is right,” Lawrence Summers, Mr Clinton’s former Treasury Secretary, said last week. Mr Summers personified the Washington consensus of the 1990s....
...In 1970, Richard Nixon hosted the first state dinner to be held outside the White House in the Del’s Crown Room, where he was joined by Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Frank Sinatra and John Wayne....
...Trump offers a variation on Nixon’s presidential omnipotence almost every day. Trump’s view of the US presidency is Imperial Roman....
...President Richard Nixon’s enemies list was intended in part to influence policy toward his adversaries....
...Why would anyone want to be Ron Ziegler to Donald Trump’s Nixon? Second, all this points up a challenge in our constitutional system....
...More reflections on the Italian upheaval — these ones from Simon Nixon and my former colleague Matthew Klein....
...Indeed, Jennifer Lawrence is standing by to play Ms Holmes in Bad Blood, the final scenes of which the Securities and Exchange Commission just drafted....
...Fortunately for us, Lawrence Hamtil of wealth management firm Fortune Financial has dipped into the past to canvas one moment of investor exuberance, the era of the Nifty Fifty, to see what the future...
...There must be more risk now of presidential interference with the Fed than at any time since Richard Nixon....
...can know the validity of allegations regarding his campaign’s involvement with Russia, but the shadow of possible scandal is far more present in the pre-inaugural press than it was even before Richard Nixon...
...The money did not seem a problem to the composer himself and two years later the St Lawrence String Quartet proudly gave the premiere of Adams’s First Quartet....
...After President Richard Nixon fired Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor looking into the 1972 Watergate burglary, a law was introduced to create a more independent investigator with wide-ranging powers...
...President Nixon’s election in 1968 marked the high point of inflationary budgetary policy designed to finance the Vietnam War....
...Nothing in the way Richard Nixon campaigned gave him a mandate for keeping an enemies list or engaging in dirty tricks. If he is elected, Donald Trump may think he has such a mandate....
...True, there have been any number of periods of frustration for the US before, and times when American behaviour was hardly multilateralist, such as the 1971 Nixon shock, ending the convertibility of the...
...And when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau learned that Richard Nixon had called him “an asshole”, he responded: “I’ve been called worse things by better people.”...
...Nixon says he can be working on a decapitated head on a postmortem bench and just “looking at what forensics I can get from it”....
...Richard Nixon’s second term was not completed because of his forced resignation over Watergate....
...Sir Lawrence Freedman is professor of war studies at King’s College London. His most recent book is ‘Strategy: A History’ (OUP)...
...Peter Dinklage is watchably villainous, star buy Jennifer Lawrence a scenic let-down....
...Richard Nixon used the same weapon in 1973, announcing tax investigations “of the books of companies which raised their prices more than 1.5 per cent above the January ceiling”....
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