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...There are those who claim that even that much sleep was not enough to get him going. Lyndon Johnson kept moving by insisting on an afternoon nap "with my britches off' and a cold wake-up shower with nozzle pressure of 80 lbs. per sq. in. Richard Nixon withdrew from the world for days to marshal his strength. Ford just keeps going...
Almost exactly one year later Pei withdrew his design, which had been heavily attacked in architectural circles, and replaced it with a scaled-down version of the library. He eliminated two planned 350-seat auditoriums and split the Harvard owned building from the library, creating a park that would extend from Brattle Square to the Charles River...
...snuff boxes were freshly filled as the ten new and 23 re-elected Senators filed down the aisle in groups of four to take their oaths of office and bask in the standing applause of their colleagues. In the House, Democrat Carl Albert and Republican John Rhodes withdrew from the chamber as that body staged its selection of the Speaker. When the foregone vote was over, Rhodes graciously introduced Winner Albert as "my good friend, the leader for all members of the House," and Albert then swore in the 431 representatives, some of whom had brought their children onto...
...days later, on Aug. 9, faced with the arithmetic of votes against him, the certainty of his impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate, Nixon withdrew; he admitted no real wrong but cited only his loss of a "political base" in Congress. In the wreckage of his Administration, 16 of his aides and other operatives went to jail; John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman, once three of the most powerful men in the nation, spent the fall shuttling to the Washington courtroom where they were on trial for conspiracy...
Shock Treatment. His first four weeks were an ordeal of fire. To begin with, Richard Nixon's visit, the first by an American President, was a security nightmare. Israeli troops withdrew from the Golan Heights. Palestinian guerrillas carried out a series of suicide attacks on Israeli border communities. Delicate talks began with the U.S. on new arms purchases. In July Rabin had to fend off an attempt by Israeli annexationists, goaded by right-wing parties, to settle in the West Bank. That time he used persuasion, pointing out that Israel's occupation of the West Bank, in theory...