Word: espinosa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Espinosa does his best to consign the President's plan to the ash heap with Buckley-esque logic and equally obtuse prose. His argument that Johnson's plan represents a thinly veiled desire to extend the control of the President over Congress may be valid. But paranoid statements like "the Executive searches with lupine voracity for problem areas that it may entrench itself in yet another sphere of life" are absurd...
Like all conservative ideologues these days, Espinosa intersperses the familiar litany against executive encroachment with 18th century talk about the "rejection of sovereignty" being the "essence of the preservation of liberty." Unfortunately, those sodbound theorists were talking about the civil liberties he glosses over, not the special economic interests he wants to protect from executive and Congressional regulation. Espinosa also fears that "uninhibited expression" of the will of the majority backing a President with increased power over Congress might lead to a prohibition of anti-war demonstrations. He should take solace in Johnson's reluctance to outlaw a free-speech...
...government knew the coup attempt was being plotted, but hardly anybody took it seriously. Shortly before 2 a.m. one day last week, Dr. T. Alcibíades Espinosa, a gynecologist and nabob of a small, far-right group with almost no support among the military, marched into the National Historical Archives Building in the inland city of Santiago, followed by a corporal's guard of 60 men armed with machetes, baseball bats and a few ancient rifles...
...Espinosa proclaimed himself President, decreed a Christmas bonus for all work ers, and broadcast a call for popular revolt. Santiago's police chief politely invited Espinosa over to the Police Palace for "friendly talks," then unceremoniously tossed him into jail, thus ending the affair...