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  • I looked through 15 histories of the Sixties, with titles like 1968: The Year that Rocked the World, The Global Revolutions of 1968, and 1968: The World Transformed -- and found no references to Greece -- with the exception of the $549,000 secret check to Richard Nixon from the Greek dictators 'intelligence service, passed through Thomas Pappas (in Ric Perlstein's Nixonland, 2008, p. 518).

    Tom Hayden: Greece and the Global Sixties 2009

  • It is easy to see why someone like George W. Bush would carefully laud the life of a man who took from Americans what was so desperately needed; accountability for the crimes of Richard Nixon translates into accountability for him.

    Gerald Ford: The man who gave America the NeoCons 2006

  • Really, does the name Richard Nixon mean anything to you?

    CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2004 2004

  • "You have never heard the name Richard Nixon ... or Eisenhower ...

    Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995

  • He spent two years composing it, pairing the big-band music he remembered from his gran dfather's dance hall to suggest the idea of Richard Nixon's imagined Middle America with music that sounded like bad imitations of scores of Russian and French ballets.

    Busting Out of Musical Lockdown Julia Flynn Siler 2011

  • In sentiment it recalls Richard Nixon's line after losing the California governor's race in 1962: "You don't have Nixon to kick around anymore."

    Obama’s Big Gamble 2009

  • She was delighted, for instance, in 1950 when her friend Helen Gahagan Douglas dubbed Richard Nixon, her opponent in the U.S. Senate race in California, "tricky Dick."

    Robin Gerber: Hillary's Eleanorean Moments 2008

  • But it reminds me of an expression Richard Nixon used.

    CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2008 2008

  • Then there was a time I personally called Richard Nixon President Reagan.

    CNN Transcript May 6, 2008 2008

  • Yes, Dole was that way, too -- back when he was known as Richard Nixon's "sheriff" in the Senate.

    Last Call 2008

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