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...serious threat to Nixon's program. Outright union defiance could prove disastrous. Almost nothing could paralyze economic expansion, which the President is counting on to create new jobs and improve productivity, so quickly as a series of major strikes. More than one Administration official last week recalled apprehensively the blunt words of longtime Mine Workers Boss John L. Lewis, who by angry threats almost alone destroyed the wage freeze that followed World War II. Said Lewis: "You can't mine coal with bayonets...
Nixon's proposals were designed 1) to stimulate the domestic economy by encouraging industrial investment and consumer spending and making imported goods more expensive, and 2) to blunt the mounting attack on the wavering dollar. Said the President: "Every action I have taken tonight is designed to nurture and stimulate [the] competitive spirit, to help us snap out of the self-doubt, the self-disparagement that saps our energy and erodes our confidence in ourselves." Once more, Nixon was handling a crisis, and he seemed to be enjoying it all hugely. Observes TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey: "Nixon clings...
Americans have sometimes cherished a blunt directness in their politicians. But that particular "give-'em-hell" charm, as Spiro Agnew has never discovered, demands, besides truculence, an implicit instinct for the underdog. It is the charm of the anti-bully...
...functions have been largely transferred to the State Department and the Council of Economic Advisers. Under Stans' stewardship, at least part of the department's remaining business constituency has drifted away. Black businessmen, who received promises of major aid during Nixon's campaign, distrust Stans' blunt conservatism; at the N.A.A.C.P. convention last month, he was roundly jeered. Big businessmen who want to get something done in Washington bypass Stans even more frequently than they did his predecessors and deal instead with White House aides, who have more clout. Many corporate leaders, who have generally grown more...
...demand that the President set a definite withdrawal date in exchange for the release of the prisoners. The group's organizer, Mrs. Harold Kushner of Danville, Va., charged the Administration with "using the prisoner issue to buy time for the South Vietnamese government." Another member was more blunt. Said Mrs. Louis F. Jones: "They cannot use my husband to spread the blood of 45 young men a week on Viet...