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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 ...
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Richard Nixon, the Blue Devil: The making of the only Duke alumnus to become president of the United States
Editor’s note: This article is one in a five-part series looking back on the life of one of Duke’s most infamous alumni — Richard Nixon. Read the following installments recounting Nixon’s ...
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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 ...