Word: gettingness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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> Did Haig improperly ask Ford to pardon Nixon? Haig, in a meeting with Vice President Gerald Ford on Aug. 1, 1974, advised Ford that he would have the power to pardon Nixon for any Watergate crimes after Nixon left office. Both men say this was cited as merely one of...
Poland's numbingly familiar queues were longer than usual last week as people tried to buy scarce delicacies for the year-end holidays. In every city, town and hamlet, citizens stood in line in hopes of getting a carp for the traditional Polish Christmas Eve dinner. When available, the...
Says James Ketchum, White House curator in the 1960s and now curator of the Senate: "In the instances of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, there was a desire to spend some time getting to know the living quarters before deciding to make changes." The Carters have made very few alterations.
One reason Iacocca decided to take the gamble of going once more to the well at this time was that he was uncertain about the possibility of getting additional assistance after Jan. 20, when the Reagan Administration takes power in Washington. Reagan opposed the original Chrysler bailout package, and after...
The summer after she graduated as the "Most Athletic Girl" at a suburban Baltimore high school, she broke her neck in a 1967 diving accident. "Somebody has to bathe me and brush my hair and feed me," she says. "In a sense, success for me is just getting up in...