Sentences with phrase «disgraced president»

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president.

It would've been very easy for Hall to slip into a caricature of Nixon and attempt to mimic the disgraced president's voice.

Nominated for five Oscars, including best picture, director (Ron Howard) and actor (Frank Langella), «Frost / Nixon» delivers a surprisingly compelling look at British talk - show host David Frost's historical four - part 1977 TV interview with disgraced president Richard M. Nixon.

The unaffected delivery of his dialogue brings realism to his characters, whether it's playing a reticent head butler in The Remains of the Day, a disgraced president in Nixon or a tortured academic in Proof.

When disgraced President Richard Nixon agreed to an interview with jet - setting television personality, David Frost, he thought he'd found the key to saving his tarnished legacy.

Sequestered in his home, a disgraced President Richard Milhous Nixon arms himself with a bottle of scotch and a gun to record memoirs that no one will hear.

RICHMONDTOWN — The acting president of a Staten Island Jewish cemetery was arrested for embezzling nearly $ 2 million dollars from the nonprofit — in a stunning repeat of the actions of the disgraced president he was tapped to replace, the Attorney General announced.

Infantino, the Swiss - born son of Italian immigrant parents, took over the scandal - battered world body from disgraced president Sepp Blatter in February 2016.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president.

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Kirbyjon Caldwell — who served as spiritual adviser to presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama — and disgraced financial planner Gregory Smith have been charged for fraud.

We must once again seek the moral high ground and cleanse our national discourse of those who wish to foster bigotry and hate, be they a disgraced and convicted former sheriff or the president of the United States.

He did not use the phrase «radical Islamic terrorism,» however, prompting Donald Trump to tweet that the president «should immediately resign in disgrace.»

Its claims have been repeatedly repudiated by the President, who has called it «fake» and «a disgrace.»

President Donald Trump blasted the Monday raid by federal authorities of the home, hotel, and office of his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen as «a disgrace» and «an attack on our country.»

What a remarkable contrast: President Donald Trump was in command at Davos talking about economic growth and prosperity, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., and disgraced former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman...

It's also attracted the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump, leading him last year to describe Canada's dairy policies as a «disgrace.»

President Trump said that it's a «disgrace» that the FBI «broke into» his lawyer's office.

With the revelation that Hannity shares an attorney with the president — namely the disgraced Michael Cohen, who's...

Veteran late - night host Jay Leno stepped in for «Tonight Show» host Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night and delivered sexual harassment - heavy monologue that took aim at disgraced actor Kevin Spacey, ousted newsmen Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose, and former President Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump.

(CNN)- Republicans jumped on the Democrats» Tuesday loss of the congressional seat given up by disgraced U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner as a sign of eroding Jewish support for President Barack Obama and his party.

Obama has become one of our very worst presidents, particularly in his unprecedented degree of mendacity - employment and his sickening shamelessness about it, a disgrace related to his exacerbating his party's habit of reality - denial about fiscal, labor, and other economy - shaping policies.

In the background, the «Boog Powell for President» banner has been ripped apart; both halves are hanging down limply in disgrace.

Carlisle: As president of the Coaches Association, I view the recent ESPN article as a disgrace quite honestly.

AMI said the rapid response of the government to ensure the late president's tombstone is saved from ruins, has saved Ghana possible «national disgrace.»

Having founded the NDC, the former President believes some people in the then government had wanted to disgrace him by reviving the issue.

Unrelenting in his determination to see to the disgrace of his predecessor whose administration he has been touting as the worse thing ever to happen to Ghana, the President, The aL - hAJJ's ongoing investigations have uncovered, has tasked the various state intelligence agencies to conduct forensic investigations into business activities of some persons with links to the former first family.

What is however not clear is if EOCO's secret investigation of the E&P CEO is at the instigation of the President's right hand man, Hon Kennedy Agyapong, who has variously threatened to get Mr Ibrahim Mahama jailed and his brother, Mr John Mahama and his family disgraced.

President Donald Trump said at a Cabinet meeting that his administration will review the nation's libel laws, calling the current laws «a sham and a disgrace.»

The aL - hAJJ last week reported how President Akufo - Addo and his advisers are plotting to terrorize and disgrace immediate past President, John Mahama; using state machinery to persecute persons linked to him and his family.

The latest move by EOCO comes less than a week after The aL - hAJJ reported in its last edition plot by President Akufo - Addo and his advisers to disgrace former President Mahama.

Nixon is emphasizing her first name in campaign materials, downplaying the last name she shares with the disgraced late president, Richard Nixon.

I say «in theory» because President Nixon did actually say, admittedly after he resigned from office in disgrace, that «When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal».

Actress Cynthia Nixon is emphasizing her first name in campaign materials as she takes on Gov. Cuomo and downplaying the last name she shares with the disgraced late president.

BROOKLYN — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams plans to meet Tuesday afternoon with black and Asian business leaders in an effort to diffuse tensions ahead of sentencing for disgraced ex-NYPD Officer Peter Liang.

Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah - Bonsu says former Zimbabwean President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe did not only «disgrace» his country but the entire leadership of the continent for over staying his presidency.

Just days after disgraced former New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer announced he would return to politics to run for New York City comptroller, he leads his opponent, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, by nine percentage points.

Bature recalled that the pioneer EFCC Chairman, Malam Nuhu Ribadu was disgraced out of office by some corrupt elements, urging the president to stay by Magu and re-present his name to the Senate.

As someone who witnessed the destruction of the World Trade Center it is a disgrace that the President and his party continue to peddle their lies about Iraq.

Leading black Democrats, worried by polls showing that African - American voters strongly favor disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer in the primary for city comptroller, are mobilizing to turn those votes to Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

Schneiderman — a powerful Democrat who filed lawsuits against President Donald Trump, himself accused of sexual misconduct, and a sexual harassment lawsuit against disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein — announced his resignation on Monday night.

«It is generally understood that anything short of giving the disgraced High Commissioner to South Africa the sack by President Akufo - Addo can only mean that the President endorses his deplorable statements and perhaps explains Ayisi Boateng's continuous show of rare spiteful bravado.»

Trump's attorney claimed he wrote a tweet about disgraced former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn that appeared on the president's personal Twitter feed Saturday and raised legal red flags.

Others on the list included former longtime Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, state Sen. Diane Savino (D - Brooklyn / Staten Island), former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Yonkers political operative and convicted felon Anthony Mangone, and the late former state Sen. Guy Velella (D - Bronx), who resigned in disgrace after pleading guilty to bribery charges.

The guilty plea of disgraced national security adviser Michael Flynn likely has President Trump and some of his top officials trembling, experts said Friday.

This bill is a disgrace,» U.F.A. president Steve Cassidy said during the demonstration which preceded a Council hearing.

A former lawmaker from Abeokuta North, Ogun State, Hon. Kayode Amusan, has told President Muhammadu Buhari to heed the advice of former President Olusegun Obasanjo not to seek reelection in 2019, or be disgraced like ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan.

In contrast to de Leon, the current Democratic leader, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, spoke in a serious and contrite tone as he urged his colleagues to address their disgraced colleagues.

Norman Seabrook — the disgraced former president of the city corrections officers» union who skated on criminal bribery charges in a mistrial last month — just scored another win Monday when a Manhattan federal judge tossed the related civil suit against him.

The shocking refusal of the president to even mention, in his remarks on the Holocaust, the fact that millions of Jews were its victims was a disgrace.

Levy, the president of New York State's Committee to Legalize Marijuana, is the latest candidate to announce his run in the special April 19 election called to replace disgraced Assemblyman Sheldon Silver.