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Teamsters Union
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......few unions to support Republican candidates, backing Richard Nixon in 1972 and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. The strongest...Fitzsimmons. Massive IBT contributions to President Richard Nixon's reelection committee led to Hoffa's release in......
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Schlesinger, James Rodney
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......strategic studies for the RAND Corp. In 1969 he was appointed assistant director of the Bureau of the Budget by President Richard Nixon, under whom he later assumed the offices of chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (1971), director of the Central......
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Ford, Gerald Rudolph
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......chairman of the Republican National Convention in 1968 and 1972. In Oct., 1973, Ford was nominated by President Richard Nixon to succeed the disgraced Spiro T. Agnew as vice president of the United States; on Dec. 6, 1973, he was sworn......
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Rodino, Peter Wallace, Jr.
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......Judiciary Committee. The following year he chaired the hearings that passed three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon as a result of the Watergate affair, which led the president to resign. Rodino was a law professor after his retirement......
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anti–Vietnam War movement
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......for the presidential nomination, Senators Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy, chose not to run. The election of Richard Nixon in 1968 and his reduction in U.S. ground forces did little to dampen the antiwar movement. His decision to invade......
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Chambers, Whittaker
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......and Chambers then accused him of having been part of an espionage ring. Chambers, now being promoted by Congressman Richard Nixon, led investigators to his Maryland farm, where he produced from a hollowed-out pumpkin State Dept. documents he......
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Levine, David
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......one of his most famous images with his caricature of Lyndon Johnson revealing an Vietnam-shaped abdominal scar. Richard Nixon, whose features and character provoked a unique savagery, was portrayed by Levine more than 60 times. His work also......
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Safire, William L.
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......as William Safir. A former reporter and public-relations executive, he became a speechwriter (1968–73) for Richard Nixon during his 1968 presidential campaign and continued in the post in the White House. From 1973 to 2005 his twice......
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executive privilege
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......most claims of executive privilege. Where criminal charges are being brought against a president, as in the case of Richard Nixon, the claims of executive privilege are weakest; during the process leading to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton......
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House Un-American Activities Committee
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......those hearings kept the committee in the headlines and provided the first national exposure for committee member Richard Nixon. Critics of the committee contended that it disregarded the civil liberties of its witnesses and that it consistently......