Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] these associations got in the way of Garfield’s friendships with political figures like New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan, federal appeals court judge Irving Kaufman, or Nixon White House aide Patrick Buchanan.59 In February 1970, the Washington Post reported that Garfinkle had been invited by President Nixon to attend ‘an evening of entertainment […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] by William Blum, Chris Floyd or Robert Parry (though they have written something similar), or any of the other commentators on the American left, but by sometime Nixon speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan, whom I suppose we might describe as bearing the torch of American isolationism.17 Telling it like it is (sort of) 17 David […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] first president to draw his power base from those who had not only conquered the North American continent but built their palaces on the West coast. Richard Nixon had tried to do this but was essentially scuttled by the North-eastern elite. Nixon never had the control over the media which was the essence of […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] votes were going to be needed again in November 1964.6 On p. 70 of his book (see footnote 2) Mr Margolick records how, as Eisenhower’s VicePresident, Richard Nixon had also courted the black vote in the 1950s, manoeuvres which included joining the NAACP and making ostentatious fact-finding visits to Africa. Dr King, watching Nixon’s […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] the Labour Party. Nixon’s treason: still officially unspeakable In 1968, as that year’s presidential election came into view, President Johnson and those around him learned that Richard Nixon was doing his best to frustrate the Vietnam peace talks then underway in Paris. Nixon was afraid that a peace deal would enable the Democrats to […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] had “brought the CIA a good background as former UN ambassador and US representative to China.”’ 5 However, as his campaign developed, Carter pointedly claimed that the Nixon and Ford administrations had used important government positions as though they were a ‘dumping ground for unsuccessful candidates, faithful political partisans, out-of-favor White House aides and […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] difficult to tell precisely where the Luce empire’s overseas intelligence network ended and the CIA’s began’.25 During Eisenhower’s second term, Time magazine’s cover had featured vice-president Richard Nixon no fewer than five times. There was no doubt about where this was heading, and in October 1960 the Luces’ endorsement of presidential candidate Nixon was […]