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Nixon was a founding member of the theatrical troupe The Drama Dept., which included Sarah Jessica Parker, Dylan Baker, John Cameron Mitchell and Billy Crudup among its actors, appearing in the group's productions of Kingdom on Earth ( 1996 ), June Moon and As Bees in Honey Drown ( both 1997 ), Hope is the Thing with Feathers ( 1998 ), and The Country Club ( 1999 ).
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In his famous meeting with Nixon a couple of years ago he seemed to believe that he was as funny as Ed Wynn.
Latin America was once an area as `` safe '' for the West as Nebraska was for Nixon.
When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.
In 1973, there was internal conflict over whether to call for the impeachment of Richard Nixon.
The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.
" Nixon was worried about the allegations, fearing that Capp's very close links to the White House would become embarrassingly public ," Hersh wrote.
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.
However, in the same poll, when respondents were asked to name the worst president since World War II, Clinton was placed number three behind Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.
This upset the United States greatly and contributed to there view that of Prince Sihanouk as a North Vietnamese sympathizer and a thorn on the United States. However, declassified documents indicate that, as late as March 1970, the Nixon administration was hoping to garner " friendly relations " with Sihanouk.
* Richard Nixon was a frequent visitor and did much to add to and modernize the facilities.
Also, some Maoist groupings attack even some of the shifts and changes that occurred while Mao was still alive and in leadership, like his 1972 welcoming of Richard Nixon ( see lesser evil for more on this event ).
In defeating Taft for the nomination, it became necessary for Eisenhower to appease the right wing Old Guard of the Republican Party ; his selection of Richard M. Nixon as the Vice-President on the ticket was designed in part for that purpose.
He was probably the first president to release information about his health and medical records while in office, On September 24, 1955, while vacationing in Colorado, he had a serious heart attack that required six weeks ' hospitalization, during which time Nixon, Dulles and Sherman Adams assumed administrative duties and provided communication with the President.
Of the previously unreleased songs, " Down to the Wire " features the New Orleans pianist Dr. John with Buffalo Springfield on an item from their shelved Stampede album ; " Love Is a Rose " was a minor hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1975 ; " Winterlong " received a cover by Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album from 1989, The Bridge ; and " Campaigner " is a Young song critical of Richard Nixon.
The medal was created on July 9, 1970 by President Richard Nixon in.
Richard Nixon himself initially vetoed the Clean Water Act, citing its projected costs, though he was ultimately overridden by Congress.
Although Coppola insisted that this was purely coincidental, for not only was the script for The Conversation completed in the mid-1960s ( before the election of Richard Nixon ) but the spying equipment used in the film was discovered through research and the use of technical advisers and not, as many believed, by revelatory newspaper stories about the Watergate break-in.
A popular graffito of the 1970s was the legend " Dick Nixon Before He Dicks You ", reflecting the hostility of the youth culture to that U. S. president.
Adams was the first composer to have earned the latter award three times, having previously won the award for El Dorado ( 1998 ) and Nixon in China ( 1989 ).
While it is now easy to say that Nixon in Chinas influential score spawned a new interest in opera, it was not always met with such laudatory and generous review.
The Independent later stated that " Lindsay came across as all style and no substance, a ' limousine liberal ' who knew nothing of the concerns of the same ' Silent Majority ' that was carrying Richard Nixon to the White House at the very same time.
The project was funded by the Griffis foundation ( named for Nixon Griffis, then a director of the aquarium ).
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Wilson is currently a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank located on the campus of Stanford University, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, the Richard M. Nixon Foundation, the Donald Bren Foundation, is the founding director of the California Mentor Foundation and is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National World War II Museum.
Author, columnist and former Nixon and Reagan speechwriter Jeffrey Hart, now Professor of English Emeritus at Dartmouth College, was also instrumental in the founding of the newspaper and has been a long-time board member and adviser.
A descendent of an old New England family, he is a cousin of the late Senator Claiborne Pell, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and of Russell E. Train, head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency under Richard Nixon and founding trustee and former chairman of the World Wildlife Fund.
After the Nixon administration assumed power in 1969, he was asked by Johnson to become the founding dean of the LBJ School.
In this role, Young investigated information leaks within the Nixon administration, ultimately being jointly responsible with Egil Krogh for the founding of the White House Special Investigations Unit, subsequently known as " The Plumbers " (" We stop leaks ").
He was also instrumental in the founding of Earth Week, and participated on task forces on environmental issues for the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Carter administrations
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Nixon conferred with Jo Ann Robinson, an Alabama State College professor and member of the Women's Political Council ( WPC ), about the Parks ' case.
In the 1972 Presidential election Richard Nixon won the county with then John Birch Society member John G. Schmitz reportedly receiving 27. 51 % of the county's vote.
* Herman Clarence Nixon, political scientist, historian, and member of the Nashville-based Southern Agrarians.
Notable residents of the development have included President Richard M. Nixon, Mrs. Pat Nixon, Raymond V. Gilmartin, current Board member on Microsoft, former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Merck & Co., Inc, and Tom Coughlin, coach of the New York Giants.
* Drew Nixon, former Republican member of the Texas State Senate, whose career ( 1995 – 2001 ) was cut short by a sex scandal.
Nixon, president of the local NAACP chapter and a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Eric Hamburg, former speechwriter and staff member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, got the idea of a film about Nixon after having dinner with Oliver Stone.
This led to a conversation on April 6, 1971, between then-President Richard M. Nixon and the Republican minority leader, Gerald R. Ford, Jr., in which Nixon said that he could no longer take counsel from Boggs as a senior member of Congress.
Despite Brooke's disagreements with Nixon, the president reportedly respected the senator's abilities ; after Nixon's election he had offered to make Brooke a member of his cabinet, or ambassador to the UN.
" He removed her as a member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, giving her seat to Senator Richard Nixon of California.
When it became apparent that this twelve member committee would find that both were unqualified, Nixon passed over Friday and Lillie for Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist.
Elliot Lee Richardson ( July 20, 1920 December 31, 1999 ) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
"— President Richard M. Nixon on the Watergate tapes, Bohemian Club member starting in 1953.
As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, he was one of the first Republicans to break with his party, and voted for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
Alluding to her alleged " Red " sympathies, Nixon hinted that she was a fellow traveler, citing as evidence the correlation of her votes with those of a far-left member of Congress.
A variety of autographed photographs representing his political career ( particularly a full Eisenhower Cabinet photo with autographs of each member, as well as a personally inscribed color photograph of Richard Nixon ) were on display for many years at the Wayne State library.
Pat Nixon became involved in the development of recreation areas and parkland, was a member of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, and lent her support to organizations dedicated to improving the lives of handicapped children.
He became a Christian in 1973, and the following year served seven months in the federal Maxwell Prison in Alabama as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges.
Robert Nixon quickly became a leading member of the Ontario Liberal Party, and was elected its leader in 1967.
Nixon remained a member of the Liberal caucus after standing down as leader, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson from 1985 to 1990.
When his father, who had been a member of the legislature since the 1919 provincial election, died on October 22, 1961, Nixon was chosen to run under the Liberal banner as his replacement.
* Nixon Hall Named for Samuel Frederick Nixon, member of the Fredonia Council from 1932 to 1952, formerly President of the Chautauqua and Erie and Dunkirk and Fredonia Telephone Companies, member of the American Association of Museums, Vice President of the Genesee Historical Society, and Trustee and President of the Chautauqua County Historical Society ; Nixon Hall opened in 1963.
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