Word: buchananism
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Trial Balloon. It is a measure of the hopelessness of his position in the House that Nixon mulled the idea over and directed speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to loft it as a trial balloon at a breakfast with newsmen. Buchanan obliged, but within hours both the Democratic and Republican leaders in the House made it clear that they would not permit the constitutional proceedings to be short-circuited. Before the end of the day, Buchanan punctured the proposal for good. "The only real advantage was to Republican members of the House," he said, "but they're going to have...
...Before the public eye--the focus of attention is on the negatives of the administration. It's an interesting point, Buchanan, in response to the response to his attack...
...hardhitting" and specific speech already prepared by Nixon Aide Patrick Buchanan for that purpose. Dean further offered to "turn the spigot off" on Government contracts to Brookings...
...this year in film has ushered forth two unquestionably vapid Daisies, plucked from two unquestionably fertile literary minds, played by two unquestionably beautiful women. First to be deflowered was F. Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. Mia Farrow plays the role with all of its attendant splendour and graceful, but inevitably brutish, carelessness. Farrow maintains a delicate balance between a gay childishness with her illicit lover, Gatsby, and a wanton callousness, a total disregard for anybody's feelings. Henry James's novella, Daisy Miller, adapted for the screen by Peter Bogdanovich, is a portrait of exactly that...
...Patrick Buchanan, 35, was the first full-time aide Richard Nixon hired as he began to assemble his presidential campaign team in 1966. A Georgetown graduate and former editorialist for the right-leaning St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Buchanan remains the President's most pugnacious defender. While serving as idea man, speechwriter, press adviser and political consultant to Nixon, he has emerged as one of the nation's leading conservative ideologues. Despite his often acerbic defense of the Administration, he has retained the admiration of those conservatives who are dismayed by his boss...