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All the President's Men: White House
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Precisely thirty years ago, as many readers will be all too well aware, a bungled burglary at the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee gave name to the worst presidential scandal in American history. That break-in on June 17, 1972 would later prove to be only one of many illegal activities sponsored by the Nixon White House.
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The Nixon years saw the first large-scale integration of public schools in the South, after the region had stalled in compliance with the 1954 Supreme Court's Brown ruling. Strategically Nixon sought a middle way between the segregationist George C. Wallace and liberal Democrats, whose support of integration was alienating white ethnics. Nixon concentrated on the principle that the law must be color-blind. "I am convinced that while legal segregation is totally wrong, forced integration of housing or education is just as wrong."[14]. Though Nixon thought of appealing to southern whites by slowing school desegregation, he decided to enforce the law after the Supreme Court, in Alexander v. Holmes County (1969), prohibited further delays. Nixon's Cabinet committee on school desegregation, under the leadership of Labor Secretary George P. Schultz, quietly set up local biracial committees to assure smooth compliance without violence or political grandstanding.
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All of this will take place at a time when President Bush is continuing to sink in the opinion polls, which suggest that his approval ratings are now in the low 40s. The White House remains under enormous strain after the botched Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers and the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina.
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About one month later, the FBI determins that the break-in was all part of a massive spying and sabatoge campaign on behalf of the Nixon re-election campaign. Several White-house "higher-up's," (James W. McCord Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy) are convicted of burglary, wiretaping and conspiracy.
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Saad Eskander, the director of Iraq’s National Library and Archive in Baghdad, finally had some time to catch up on his diary after a couple of very busy weeks. As he wrote in his latest entry, he was having trouble repairing the Internet system; the Restoration Laboratory “was hit by 5 bullets”; and “another librarian, who works at the Periodical Department, received a death threat. He has to leave his house and look for another one, as soon as he can; otherwise, he will be murdered.”
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As the House Judiciary Committee enters into its final round of impeachment hearings, Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman has called on Congress to do its duty and uphold the Constitution. Klayman urged Congress to impeach Bill Clinton, whom he termed, "the most corrupt president in American history."
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