Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uncertain of his flanks, overeager to please often-hostile audiences and skeptical fellow Democrats, the Vice President stumbled through a ghastly week, reviving an old concern that he may lack sufficient internal discipline for the White House. Nixon's campaign, on the other hand, was dominated by the overcautious approach of a man determined to preserve a long lead by avoiding errors. While Humphrey reeled garrulously from one position to another, Nixon glided over issues with skillfully pleonastic evasions, often taking no stand at all. A whole generation of under-35 voters in the U.S. knows little and cares less...
...said Nixon, "would do far more to cure crime in America than quadrupling the funds for Mr. Humphrey's war on poverty." He is in favor of "order with progress" when he speaks in Westchester but for "law and order" when he is in Houston or Charlotte, N.C. His approach seems to be paying off. The Louis Harris Survey last week produced new evidence that Nixon has been gaining popular support because of the "law and order" issue. Similarly, a new Gallup poll released this week shows that, while the 16-point lead Nixon enjoyed over Humphrey after the G.O.P...
Promise-'Em-Anything. Nixon's suggestion that crime is an illness susceptible to prompt presidential cure is misleading. So is Humphrey's glib insistence that the Democrats have a monopoly on prosperity. Both are playing promise-'em-anything politics. It is hardly an original approach, nor one that any candidate can be expected to resist entirely. But at a moment that demands great moral authority in the nation's leaders, something more than what either Humphrey or Nixon has so far offered seems required...
...trouble with that approach is that it is often the regulars who pick up the pieces after a disaster; witness the comeback of Richard Nixon, the G.O.P.'s man-in-the-middle after the party's monumental 1964 drubbing. Even if the McCarthyite irregulars were to succeed in wrecking the old party structure in order to build a new one, they might also succeed in guaranteeing an eight-year White House tenancy for Richard Nixon...
Spoiling Tactics. General Abrams has abandoned the tactics of his predecessor, General William Westmoreland, who made wide use of brigade and even division-size sweeps that sometimes left rear areas exposed. Instead, Abrams has developed a more flexible, diversified approach that employs smaller roving units. They can watch over more territory and thus spot and spoil enemy buildups in the making. Another hopeful sign: the South Vietnamese army has steadily improved throughout the summer, and its combat units are now fully equipped with U.S. M16s...