Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allows visitors to enter. Then there are receptionists to make sure that strangers do not stray into just any of the 250 rooms in Washington's financially troubled Willard Hotel, which has been taken over by United Citizens for Nixon-Agnew. Finally, there is a typical Nixon executive-cool, nononsense, briskly with...
Inside the rally room at the Somerset, all the familiar aspects of the New-Nixon machine went on display. Super-cool Nixon press aides quietly hustled local reporters out of the way in order to get the New York Times photographers and writers up near the front. "Papers with 10,000 to 25,000 circulation in the front row," said a steely-eyed young lady with a Press Aide badge. "You smaller papers in the back...
...outset of his campaign for the presidency, Richard Nixon adopted an aloof, efficient style that was designed to fulfill a double objective: he wanted to show himself to the nation as a cool, controlled figure, and he wanted to avoid the sort of major mistake that can lose an election. From New Hampshire through the convention and well into the campaign, the tactic has worked well. There have been no irretrievable blunders. Yet Nixon has made some moves that may prove to be mistakes-or that, at least, his opponents can exploit as mistakes. There is no sign...
...Keeping Cool. More significant was the support given Nixon by the 17 Scripps-Howard papers, including the Washington Daily News and the Pitts burgh Press. All supported L.B.J. four years ago. "In the hazardous world of these times," said an editorial that ran throughout the chain, "including the miserable war in Viet Nam, we need a President who can keep cool, who can make a decision and carry it out, who knows when to hold his tongue and when to use it. Richard Nixon's experience and conduct clearly show these abilities. Hubert Humphrey, especially in this campaign...
...wildest of the lot. Imhoff's movie sets a sound track of himself making his collect call on top of a mad melee of still photographs and film clips punctuated by blanks on the screen. The film wheels on crazily in visual free association above the voices of the cool boy on the phone, the confused operator, and the indignant presidential receptionist...