Nixon, President Richard

Dagang, a Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Science. The two became overnight friends, and before leaving Tokyo exchanged invitations to visit their respective institutes. Although it seemed unlikely in 1966 that their invitations would be honored, U.S.-Chinese relations warmed immediately after President Richard Nixon s famous trip in early 1972. As a result of his own "opening to China", Mark was the first western chemist to visit colleagues in the Peoples Republic. This historic visit was made in June, 1972. 

Public Papers of President Richard Nixon. (1971, June). 202. Remarks About an Intensified Program for Drug Abuse Prevention and Control . See also, 203, Special Message to the Congress on Drug Abuse Prevention and Control , Retrieved April 19, 2004 from http //... 

An executive order from President Richard Nixon creates the Drug Enforcement Administration, a new federal agency that has responsibility for enforcing drug laws. 

As U.S. involvement in Vietnam increases, a growing number of GIs are exposed to the temptations of cheap marijuana and heroin. On their return, some veterans help swell the growing numbers of street drug addicts. In his campaign for the presidency, Richard Nixon calls for a war on drugs. Soon after his election he forms the President s National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse. 

Laws about marijuana have been the subject of controversy for many years. When marijuana use spread to the middle class in the 1960s and 1970s, public attitudes toward it softened. In 1970, President Richard Nixon created the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse. In 1972, the Commission issued its report, "Marijuana A Signal of Misunderstanding." This report recommended the elimination of criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana.,—... 

America s participation in germ warfare research took an abrupt turn when, on November 25, 1965, President Richard Nixon proclaimed that the U.S. shall renounce the use of lethal biological agents and weapons, and all other methods of biological warfare. The U.S. will confine its biological research to defensive measures. In 1972, the United States, the Soviet Union, and more than 100 nations... 

In September, 1974 less than four weeks after President Richard Nixon was driven out of office, Evelyn de Rothschild, Walter Hesselbach, and a handful of others conspired to bring down the Banque de Credit Internationale (1). The collapse caused a momentary panic on the international financial markets and more longterm financial problems for such people as Nixon and Michele Sindona, the Italian banker, whose poor judgment led them to place their money in the hands of IOS. Did this financial catastrophe spell the end of Permindex After all, BCI had been one of the centerpieces of the dirty money side of Major Bloomfield s assassination bureau. 

At that point, Democratic Party politicians and prominent figures in the Zionist Lobby went into action on Emprise s behalf. Not coincidentally, the same forces that came forward for Emprise were also preparing the Watergate scandal to bring down President Richard Nixon. (5)... 

Based on the counsel of his advisors. President Richard Nixon believed that the Kaiser Health Plan could be replicated at a national level as a means to control health care costs. Because many of President Nixon s advisees were Californians, they were familiar with the Kaiser health system, the home of some of Mr. Kaiser s first prepaid health plans. They knew that HMOs at the time offered numerous possible advantages to the traditional health care system. These HMOs (1) were cost effective, (2) provided quality care, (3) decreased administrative waste, (4) instituted health care utilization controls, and (5) demonstrated a high degree of patient satisfaction. ... 

Two months after Earth Day, 1970, President Richard Nixon issued an executive order creating the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to administer the nation s environmental laws and programs. The President adopted an apocalyptic tone characteristic of the time when he said, The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment...it is literally now or never. ... 

In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared that drug abuse was a public enemy and launched a governmental war on drugs. However, the approach under Nixon was significant and unique—the focus was on drug abuse prevention, with most funding going towards treatment rather than enforcement of... 

In a special message to Congress on February 8, 1972, President Richard Nixon explained his rationale for the Endangered Species Act and other major environmental legislation adopted during his administration ... 

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