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Word: daddyism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edition in 1968; the controlling theme was that political terms are among the most colorful and inventive in the English language, and that each new President creates neologisms. So do his opponents. Johnson gave us the Great Society and the War on Poverty, his enemies Credibility Gap and Big-Daddyism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Word-Game Plan | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...delicate talks, as Nixon later explained to the press. No leaks escaped to upset the routine, no emotions exploded to disturb the surface tranquillity. There was no shoe pounding, no confrontation of raw power, as occurred at the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in Vienna. There was none of the Big Daddyism that Lyndon Johnson exhibited in 1966 at his Asian summit in the Philippines. Security was not obtrusive; crowds did not have to be controlled because they rarely gathered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Richard Nixon's Long March to Shanghai | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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