Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answers to still undeveloped questions unfold. But we are not sorry to leave most of Watergate behind and move on to a new phase in American history and thus, inevitably, in journalism. Our minds and plans have already begun to shift to the future and the opportunity to focus on many subjects that have had to be pushed aside over these many months. As TIME's editors pointed out recently in a cover story and essay on the American press, it will be the role of American journalism after Watergate to help reestablish an American consensus and find...
...full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad. To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home. Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow...
...tension is apparent as he works the truck back into the parallel parking space, only a couple of feet longer than the truck. The crowd for the first time has something to watch, and starts to focus attention on his misery. He hits a barrier, and another, but finally coaxes his truck between the barricades and goes on to the next problem...
Vietnam was the central focus of the 1972 election; Watergate never surfaced as the issue that would sway the vote. Part of the reason that Watergate stayed in the background during the campaign was that George McGovern chose to talk about Nixon's more heinous crimes. The other reason the break-in didn't change the election's outcome was that a systematic effort to contain the matter worked better than even Nixon could have hoped...
Nixon Aides William F. Timmons and Dean Burch will press that argument on wavering Republicans and other undecided members of the House in the coming weeks. At the same time, they plan to shift the fight against impeachment to political grounds, trying to focus attention on Nixon's accomplishments, particularly in the area of foreign policy. Arm twisting will be taboo. Explained one Nixon supporter: "It's counterproductive." Other White House aides, notably Buchanan and Clawson, will attempt to communicate the same line to the public, while Presidential Aide William J. Baroody Jr. will work with pro-Nixon...