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Search results for "Richard Nixon" ...
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Dial M for Martyr
Investigation of the slaying of Edwin Pratt, 38; Edwin was considered to be the Martin Luther King of the Northwest by President Richard Nixon.
Tags: Edwin Pratt; Civil Rights; Racism; Murder
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Poisoning the Press
The narrative history of the bitter quarter-century struggle between Richard Nixon and Jack Anderson exposes corruption by both men and illustrates a larger story about the price of power in politics and journalism alike.
Tags: Richard NIxon; Jack Anderson; presidency; lobbyist; White House
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Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture
The narrative history of the bitter struggle between Richard Nixon and journalist Jack Anderson exposes corruption by both men and illustrates a larger story about the price of power in politics and journalism alike.
Tags: Richard Nixon; Jack Anderson; Somoza; White House tapes; Watergate; assassinate
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The Thirty Years' War
The New Yorker reports on the progress of our war on cancer, which has lasted more than thirty years. The question is whether we've been fighting cancer the right way. "If you had demanded that the N.I.H. solve the problem of polio not through independent research, but by means of a centrally directed program... you would get the very best iron lungs in the world... but you wouldn't get the vaccine that eradicated polio," the New Yorker quotes a former National Cancer Institute director. New discoveries are often touted as miracles without ever causing significant drops in mortality rates. Though knowledge about cancer has been increasing, the American mythology of cancer is running into the realities of federally run programs.
Tags: cancer; Richard Nixon; Citizens Committee For The Conquest of Cancer; National Cancer Institute; National Institutes For Health; STI-571; cancer treatments
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Washington's Other Scandal
The 1996 presidential campaign was the most expensive in history and the most corrupt since Richard Nixon's 1974 re-election. Frontline investigates how both Democrats and Republicans conspired to evade the laws which limit the amount of money allowed to flow into election campaigns.
Tags: TAPE.
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No title (id: 12847)
As a staff attorney for the Watergate Committee, Rufus Edmisten served a subpoena on then-President Richard Nixon. Edmisten parlyed his reputation as a reformer taking on powerful interests into a political career in his native North Carolina, servins as Attorney General and now Secretary of State. But WRAL-TV documented how Edmisten himself used the trappings of power: staff, cars, cell phones, travel and patronage paid for by the taxpayers to benefit himself and his friends. (Aug. 1, 2, 4, 8, Oct. 13, Dec. 12, & 14, 1995)
Tags: Watson Adkins Rufus Edmisten Contest entry 20 pgs. TAPE
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No title (id: 10091)
Washington Post Magazine profiles Elliot Richardson, the attorney general who resigned rather than cave in to Richard Nixon's pressure, and his new quest to solve the Inslaw scandal; includes a description of Inslaw.
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Watergate - The Greek Connection
The Nation puts forth a new theory on the motive behind the Watergate break-in; this theory involves illegal campaign contributions from a Greek-American tycoon who was rewarded with lucrative government favors and contracts, May 31, 1986.
Tags: Watergate; Richard Nixon
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ABC News 20/20 interviews key members of the Watergate trial grand jury 10 years later; despite a straw vote in which 19 people unanimously voted for an indictment of Richard Nixon, he was not: includes interviews with Leon Jaworski, the special prosecutor who opposed a Nixon indictment, and Judge John Sirica, who believes Nixon should have been indicted, June 17, 1982.
Tags: Tape