Word: baiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard Nixon in 1969 sensed the yearning of China to join the real world. He was torn between his old reputation as a Red baiter and the new opportunity for acclaim as a diplomatic pathbreaker. Henry Kissinger described Nixon at this hour as "schizophrenic," deploring Peking's decades of hostility but sniffing some thing geopolitics in the wind. Nixon grabbed the moment, and the shape of geopolitics was changed...
...Given the historical suspicions toward my religion, I had a special obligation to do so. Occasionally it proved painful. But Israel's security could be preserved only by anchoring it to a strategic interest of the U.S., not to the sentiments of individuals. On this basis the Communist-baiter from Southern California and the refugee from Nazi Germany joined to break the deadlock of Middle East diplomacy...