Posts Tagged ‘Richard Nixon’
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The Dangers of Passive Power
Posted on June 13, 2014
Even before Richard Nixon resigned after Watergate, Congress had grown weary of the Vietnam War. Shortly after he was reelected in November of 1973, Congress passed the Case-Church Amendment by...
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GOP’s Silent Majority
Posted on September 27, 2011
“And so tonight — to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans — I ask for your support.” In November of 1969, Richard Nixon uttered this line in...
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No Need To Respond
Posted on September 7, 2011
Ev and Gerry started the whole response thing. Everett Dirksen and Gerry Ford, the former Senate Republican leader from Illinois and the former House Minority Leader (and later President) from...
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Golf Summit
Posted on June 16, 2011
First, there was the beer summit. Now there is the golf summit. Where other Presidents had summits to negotiate nuclear arms deals or budget compromises, Barack Obama has chosen to...
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