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That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.
Carvey considers that former Vice President Nixon would be Brown's most formidable foe, with ex-Gov. Knight a close second.
Mr. Nixon, for his part, would oppose intervention in Cuba without specific provocation.
Until the Cuban fiasco and the Communist military victories in Laos, almost any observer would have said that President Kennedy had blended a program that respected, generally, the opinions voiced both by Mr. Nixon and the professors.
" Nixon was worried about the allegations, fearing that Capp's very close links to the White House would become embarrassingly public ," Hersh wrote.
" Four years later, Gerald Ford would become president when President Richard Nixon resigned under the threat of impeachment.
Nixon had a play he thought would work, a particular pass to Warfield.
Then, on August 15, 1971, United States President Richard Nixon announced that the United States dollar would no longer be convertible to gold, effectively ending the system.
In 1969, Vice President Hubert Humphrey would have announced the election of his opponent, Richard Nixon ; however, on the date of the Congressional joint session ( January 6 ), Humphrey was in Norway attending the funeral of Trygve Lie, the first elected Secretary-General of the United Nations.
As President, Khan helped to establish the communication channel between the United States and the People's Republic of China, which would be used to set up the Nixon trip in 1972.
Kissinger would work to prevent sectarian conflicts in Yemen and Lebanon from devolving into regional wars under Presidents Nixon and Ford.
Nixon met with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and did not believe her assertion that she would not invade Pakistan ; he did not trust her and once referred to her as an " old witch ".
By 1970, President Richard Nixon initiated a Plan of Vietnamization, which would remove the US from the Vietnam War and return the responsibility of defense back to the South Vietnamese.
The shuttle program was formally launched on January 5, 1972, when President Nixon announced that NASA would proceed with the development of a reusable space shuttle system.
When John Ehrlichman, the President's counsel and assistant, asked Nixon why he kept Agnew on the ticket in the 1972 election, Nixon replied that " No assassin in his right mind would kill me " because they would get Agnew ( as President ).
Had Agnew remained as Vice President when Nixon resigned just 10 months later, Agnew himself would have become the 38th President, as well as a strong candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, both of which instead went to Ford.
In that exchange, the former vice president famously told reporters that they would not " have Nixon to kick around any more.
Dewey also played a major role that year in convincing Eisenhower to keep Nixon as his running mate ; Eisenhower had considered dropping Nixon from the Republican ticket and picking someone he felt would be less partisan and controversial.
However, Dewey argued that dropping Nixon from the ticket would only anger Republican voters while winning Eisenhower few votes from the Democrats.

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Since 1971, when the Nixon administration decided to abolish fixed exchange rates, America's Current Account accumulated trade deficits have totaled $ 7. 75 Trillion as of 2010.
" He actively campaigned for Nixon in the final days and may have done Nixon some harm.
She had to hurdle a barbecue pit to touch Lady Bird Johnson, she accidentally knocked Pat Nixon down, and Nancy Reagan told her to get out of her face or she'd have her arrested.
* 1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a " Kitchen Debate ".
* 1974 – Watergate scandal: the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
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 ).
He drew the strip until 2011, when he stopped to concentrate on Dennis and Gnasher, though Trevor Metcalfe drew a few strips in 2003 and 2004, and there have also been some Robert Nixon reprints during 2005 and 2006.
* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
In his concession speech, he states that this is his " last press conference " and that " you don't have Nixon to kick around any more ".
Oval Office tapes reveal that in 1971, Nixon and his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, discussed their desire to have Agnew resign from office prior to the following year's campaign season.
I have lost, Mr. Nixon has won.
He is believed to have supplied large amounts of the drug to Richard Nixon throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s.
In the 1960s G. Gordon Liddy ( who went to prison for crimes committed during the Nixon administration's Watergate scandal and now a talk show host ), was a Dutchess County assistant district attorney when he repeatedly tried to have Timothy Leary arrested on drug charges.
" On September 15, Nixon congratulated Dean, saying, " The way you've handled it, it seems to me, has been very skillful, because you — putting your fingers in the dikes every time that leaks have sprung here and sprung there.
Nixon said in a May 1974 interview with a supporter that if he had followed the liberal policies which he thought the media preferred, " Watergate would have been a blip.
" This newspaper continued, that, while the transcripts may not have revealed an indictable offense, they showed Nixon contemptuous of the United States, its institutions, and its people.
" Dean continues and states that Howard Hunt is blackmailing the White House, demanding money immediately, and President Nixon replies that the blackmail money should be paid: "… just looking at the immediate problem, don't you have to have – handle Hunt's financial situation damn soon?

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Although Nixon initially liked and respected Agnew, as time progressed he felt his vice president lacked the intelligence and vision, particularly in foreign affairs, to sit in the Oval Office, and he began freezing Agnew out of the White House decision-making process.
" Nixon immediately liked Laird's word.
Alongside his skills as a stage magician, Nixon liked to use television technology for humour and entertainment.
In her autobiography, Marni Nixon, who appeared in the film as Sister Sophia, said Peggy especially liked McKay's singing voice as she sounded like Peggy did in her younger days.
In a telephone conversation between Richard Nixon and Charles Colson, taped on July 1, 1971, Colson relates the news that Lyndon Johnson privately believed that Hoopes had played a role in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the press, and that he would have liked to have seen Hoopes taken to court by the government alongside various newspapermen.

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