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Richard Milhous Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon 1913-94, 37th President of the United States (1969-74), b. Yorba Linda, Calif. Political Career to 1968 A graduate of Whittier College and Duke Univ. law school, he practiced law in Whittier, Calif., from 1937 to 1942, was briefly with the Office of Emergency Management, and... Read more |
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Leon Jaworski
JAWORSKI, LEON Leon Jaworski, like richard m. nixon, came from a poor, deeply religious background. In the watergate scandal, Jaworski's rise to national prominence almost seemed to parallel Nixon's descent. Watergate is the name given to the scandal that began with the bungled burglary in June... Read more |
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Obstruction of Justice
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE What brought down President Richard Nixon was not any involvement in planning the burglary of the Democrat National Committee's Watergate offices but his efforts, while president, to obstruct the investigation of that crime. In this instance, as in many others, Nixon's effort... Read more |
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Gerald Rudolph Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford 1913-2006, 38th president of the United States (1974-77), b. Omaha, Nebr. He was originally named Leslie Lynch King, Jr., but his parents were divorced when he was two, and when his mother remarried he assumed the name of his stepfather. Admitted to the Michigan bar in 1941, he... Read more |
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Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger (born 1923) was secretary of state during the second Nixon administration and the Ford administration, chief of the National Security Council (1969-1973), professor at Harvard University (1952-1969), and co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (with Le Duc... Read more |
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Cooper-Church Amendment
Cooper‐Church Amendment (1970).During the Vietnam War, President Richard M. Nixon on 30 April 1970 ordered American and South Vietnamese troops to invade Cambodia in order to attack North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front sanctuaries. Nixon defended his action as necessary to carry... Read more |
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Paris Peace Agreement
Paris Peace Agreement (1973).The “Agreement on Ending War and Restoring Peace to Vietnam,” signed in Paris, 27 January 1973, concluded America's direct military participation in the Vietnam War. Following a decade of conflict and abortive negotiations, only in October 1972 did North... Read more |
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Edward Hirsch Levi
LEVI, EDWARD HIRSCH Edward Hirsch Levi served as U.S. attorney general from 1975 to 1976. A prominent and respected lawyer, scholar, and teacher, Levi became attorney general following the watergate scandals and the resignation of President richard m. nixon. Levi helped to restore respect and... Read more |
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San Clemente
San Clemente , city (1990 pop. 41,100), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; inc. 1928. Camp Pendleton, a large U.S. marine base, adjoins the city, which is chiefly residential. There is diverse light manufacturing. San Clemente is a popular vacation spot, with several missions, state... Read more |
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Benign Neglect
Benign Neglect BIBLIOGRAPHY The concept of benign neglect was coined by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) in a January 1970 memo to President Richard M. Nixon while he served as the latter’s Urban Affairs counselor. The widely circulated memo, which w... Read more |
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Book Critics Circle Picks Nominees;Newberry, Cladecott Medalists Announced
...Roger Morris's "Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American...Schoolchildren" by Tracy Kidder (Richard Todd/Houghton Mifflin...Simon & Schuster). The poetry nominees are "Transparent...edited by Orchard's Richard Jackson. ... |
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS MAKE NOMINATIONS
...Schoolchildren," by Tracy Kidder (Richard Todd/Houghton Mifflin...Friedrich (Random House); "Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician...Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press). Poetry: "Earthquake Weather," by... |