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...rehabilitation of Richard Nixon, though still in its infancy, is a frightening enough prospect to merit some serious attention even now. Gone are the "Honk If You Think He's Guilty" bumper stickers, given way to advertisements for RN, Nixon's slickly self-serving autobiography; vanished are the chanting, cheering crowds that streamed through the streets of Washington to celebrate on a hot summer night four years ago, replaced by the thousand or so who cheered the man like a hero out of exile when he visited Hardin. Ky. last week. The cheers are not loud, but they are insistent...
...RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Nixon...
...RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Nixon...
They pulled up to the United Nations' glassy Manhattan headquarters by the limousine load-President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of France, Premier Thorbjörn Falldin of Sweden, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada. All together, 20 heads of state or government were scheduled to drop in on the five-week-long proceedings. The occasion that brought them: an unprecedented session of the 149-member General Assembly devoted solely to disarmament, the largest group ever convened in an attempt to reverse the world's steady accumulation of ever more and deadlier weapons...
When the Socialists were defeated by a moderate coalition in the 1976 elections, for the first time in more than four decades, Palme boasted that he was leaving "a well-laid table" for his successor. In truth, Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin's inheritance looks more like an empty kitchen. Palme had grossly miscalculated the timing and strength of the world economic recovery. When this finally became apparent, Fälldin compounded the original error by failing to warn of the danger and take immediate strong action...