Richard Nixon took full advantage, exercising the veto power extensively. ... Since the mishaps of Nixon's reign, congress has tightened control, at the expense of the presidents ability to lead with such previous effectiveness. ... Also, in 1973, congress proposed to subject the OMB director and deputy director to Senate confirmation, despite the disapproval of the Nixon administration, who insisted the senate scrutiny of appointees should not extend to the inner circle of presidential advisors. ...

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The vacated seat of Earl Warren led to the appointment of Warren Burger to the chief justice seat by Richard Nixon; one of four appointments that Nixon had the opportunity to make. As Nixon had hoped, the Burger court was far more conservative than the Warren court, yet they still handed down decisions which legalized abortion, legitimized school busing, and provided greater protection for women under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. ...

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On the same day a declaration of independence from Britain was proposed to Congress by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, which was June 6, 1776, he also proposed "That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation." ...

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In 1971, a couple of those Americans, antagonistic Goldwater Republicans abhorred by Richard Nixon and what the GOP had become--socially conservative and the pusher of big government--gathered in the home of MIT graduate and founder of a new political economic classification known as the Nolan Chart, David Nolan. ...

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