...Dina Badie As such, critics of the Nixon–Kissinger “globalist” approach rejected the notion that the US could adequately manage its security while viewing it solely through the narrow lens of the Cold War. The irony of course is that, in strategic terms, a global view would avoid theateritis...

... groups (DRGs) Social Security Nixon Carter Reagan The 1970s marked a period of enormous change within the American health care system. Rapidly increasing medical inflation forced those who paid for patients’ care—employers and the government—to begin pursuing limits on medical providers...

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...This chapter explores the ways in which President Richard Nixon used language to create particular worlds within which actions are justified through presidential role or individual presidential intentions. Given the central role of Watergate in any assessment of Nixon, his language, or his...

...This chapter traces the evolution of Iran from a client to a partner of the United States, from the announcement of the British withdrawal from the Persian Gulf in 1968 to the end of Nixon’s first term as president in 1972. The shah successfully lobbied the Nixon administration to abandon a policy...

...This chapter focuses on Nixon's strategy for addressing Kennedy's Catholicism. It describes former Missouri Congressman Orlando K. Armstrong's off-the-record role as organizer of anti-Catholic forces for Nixon. It also details the efforts of the POAU—a national organization with a large grassroots...

..., anxiety had been growing within the campaign that the West Virginia primary results had not put the religion issue to rest at all. But between the revelation from an informant that Nixon had an operative in the field organizing conservative Protestants against Kennedy and the realization that the Peale...

... activity in the 1960s, there was a widespread view that government spending had become reckless and uncontrollable. A “Budget War” then ensued between Congress and President Nixon which was resolved in 1974 with a series of transformational reforms undertaken with an aim of imposing restraint...

... and the party majority. Pension reform got off to a fast start in the House, but action there was likely to be slower. As the House and Senate moved forward on pension issues, the White House reassessed its own program. Richard Nixon’s pension program was more noteworthy for what it did not propose than...

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...This chapter examines how Jarrettsville came to be, and how even its title was eventually derived, by tracing the social life of artistic creation within it. Between 1998 and 2004, Cornelia Nixon was working on a novel titled Martha's Version, the story...

...This chapter examines how Cornelia Nixon turned a $6,000 advance for Jarrettsville into a stable and middle-class income. Nixon's writing ritual is a story not only about her creative process, but also about money. She lives in a handsome condo in Berkeley Hills, California. She...

...This chapter examines why Cornelia Nixon fired her literary agent after the success of her novel Now You See It. It first provides an overview of literary magazines, which provided a contact point between unknown authors and literary agents who might read their works and help them...

... what kind of novel it was. While Cornelia Nixon had developed a reputation as an author of literary fiction, Jarrettsville's plot makes it more the stuff of popular fiction. The chapter first considers how publishing houses need to strike a balance between artistic and commercial books...

...This chapter examines how a one-sentence email from Kim Wylie, the VP of sales at Publishers Group West, almost led to a doubling of Counterpoint Press's print run for Jarrettsville. Cornelia Nixon enacted Adam Krefman's suggestion to move part of the end of Jarrettsville...

...This chapter examines Counterpoint Press's marketing for Jarrettsville, focusing on how it increased awareness for Cornelia Nixon's novel at BookExpo America (BEA). It first provides an overview of BEA, a trade conference held in May or early June each year for publishers...

... conservatism and his support for Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater. Ford John Goddard Jean Luc Goldwater Barry Kazan Elia Sirk Douglas Wayne John Cheyenne Autumn 1964 Fonda Henry Fonda Jane Nixon Richard Roosevelt Franklin D Stevens George Donovan William Motion Picture Alliance...

...This chapter discusses President Richard Nixon's welfare-reform proposal, the Family Assistance Plan (FAP). It provided an income guarantee—an amount of money that every American family with children would receive—and a low tax or takeaway rate on welfare benefits. The proposal included all poor...

...This chapter focuses on Richard Nixon's campaign to “snuff out” the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). He demanded the resignation of then director Phillip V. Sanchez and other senior staff, impounded millions of dollars of congressionally appropriated funds for antipoverty work, and zeroed out...

...This chapter delves into Richard Nixon’s notoriously passionate feelings about football, examining the ways in which it was at once an authentic, deeply meaningful experience for him and an inherently political means of polarizing the American public. Nixon invoked football and attended football...