Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation. While the Administration so far has managed to block a regime that it does not want, it has yet to win the kind of government it wants. The dilemma, despite Johnson's oft-stated aim to establish "a broad-based" government, is that: 1) there are no centrist parties of any strength, and 2) the individual hatreds of possible leaders are hard to reconcile...
...term Democrat Albert Resellini, urged the party to "reconstruct our framework in terms that will encompass a variety of opinion." Former Vice President Richard Nixon, who had reinstituted himself as the favorite target of some cartoonists by attacks on his fellow moderate Nelson Rockefeller, now called for a centrist leadership that would make enough room for both liberals and conservatives-but not for "the 'nut' left or the 'nut' right." In case anybody was wondering who might qualify as a centrist leader, Nixon pointed out: "I'm perhaps at dead center...
...answer is not foreordained: it must depend partly on Johnson's skill in maintaining the consensus; partly on the course of racial and foreign crises; and partly on whether groups to the right and left of Democratic center succeed in formulating realistic alternatives to centrist policies. So far, the capacity to think out such policies is something that neither side has shown any signs of developing...
...After Red votes swung the election to moderate Leftist Giovanni Gronchi in 1955, Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti cried: "When it comes to choosing a President, we are the ones who choose." Last week, after the Reds backed Saragat in a futile maneuver aimed at pulling him farther left than Centrist Fanfani would be willing to go, the Communist boast had turned hollow...