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The fast, the furious, and the executive privilege
Although the privilege is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court first found in the 1974 Watergate case, United States v. Nixon, a constitutional basis for the doctrine ...
From Nixon to January 6: The history of presidential pardons
One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.
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Excerpt from The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, 1997 ed., pp. 60-64.
[Following the Kennedy-Johnson administration in the United States, there was a massive effort ... liberals but of the administration of Richard Nixon, a moderately conservative Republican who ...
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On this date: Nixon directs NASA to build space shuttle program
On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle program. “I have decided today that the United States should proceed at ...