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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"President Nixon"”.
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Nixon's Wars: Secrecy, Watergate, and the CIA
… history. It resulted in the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, and it had a profound, lasting, and damaging impact on the American people’s trust in government. The story of Watergate is often intertwined with that of President Nixon—his corruption, paranoia, abuse of power, and …
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The Decision Making Process in People's Republic of China: China's Response to the Nixon Administration's Policy Toward China
The touchdown of President Nixon's airplane, the Spirit of '76, at Peking airport on February 21, 1972, marked the end of an era in the foreign relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. This period had persisted from the communist takeover in 1949 to the present. This …
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Analysis of Senate voting behavior on Supreme Court nominations, 1969-1970 : a study of party membership, sectional representation and ideology.
Since taking office in January 1969, President Richard Nixon has nominated four men for the Supreme Court. However, only two nominees were approved by the Senate; two were rejected. The purpose of this research was to attempt an explanation of this phenomenon of Senate behavior. The introductory …
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Deliberate uncertainty : the South Asian Crisis of 1971, the Nixon White House, and the U.S. State Department
… Indo-Pak War by the year's end. It examines how President Nixon's administration and the US State Department viewed the events in South Asia, what they saw as being the appropriate response, and the differences in what they thought the US should do in response to what was happening on the other …
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Personality and Political Leadership Explored: Richard Nixon and the Family Assistance Plan
… explores the notion of personality as it impacts presidential behavior. Relying on the arguably fragmented field of personality and policymaking, the paper offers a case study of President Richard Nixon's experience with the Family Assistance Plan, a landmark piece of welfare reform. In contending …
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Job Corps to 1973
… Job Corps survived a political attack by President Nixon, and emerged as a viable poverty program in the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) legislation. Records of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), Department of Labor, and the White House were reviewed. Interviews …
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Politics of poverty in Arkansas : a decision-making study.
… have been challenges to its continued existence. President Nixon's attempted dismantlement of the Office of Economic Opportunity and the ensuing court battle represent the most significant challenge to date. Having a vested interest in the continuation of OEO, the personnel of Community Action …
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Narrative Persuasion and Transportation Theory as a Stigma Reduction Method for Substance Use Disorder: A Thematic Analysis
… use disorder (SUD), has only increased since President Nixon declared the "war on drugs" in 1971 (National Public Radio, 2007). Negative public stigma of SUD creates barriers for treatment for those who are suffering, continuing to exacerbate the stigma surrounding SUD. To understand ways to …
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No More Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: The Nixon Doctrine, South Korea, and the Vietnam War
… until the end of the Vietnam War, the Richard Nixon administration and the South Korean Park Chung-hee administration, balanced their own priorities with those of their bilateral allies. For President Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, the foreign policy priority centered …
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Study of United States Senate voting behavior : the issue of "law-and-order", 1969-1970.
… cry of the two out-of-office candidates, Richard Nixon and George C. Wallace, during the 1968 presidential campaign. Several pieces of legislation concerning proposal which their sponsors hoped would move toward restoring law-and-order to the country were acted upon by the United States Senate …
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“Otherwise, it’s War”: US-Taiwan Defense Ties and the Opening of the People’s Republic of China (1969-1974)
<p>In 1969, President Richard Nixon inherited a much different Cold War than that which existed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Writ large, the project of ‘containing’ communism appeared to be falling apart. The Soviet Union was ascendant in Eurasia, the Vietnam War was continuing to grind down …