Word: formulae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CERTAIN at last that he had found the formula for victory, Richard Nixon began his campaign last week in a mood of hyperoptimism. Indeed, at the start of his drive, the Republican nominee's main concern seemed to be that his forces might become too cocky. Even that eventuality, however, was being taken into account in the careful Nixon manner. "I think we started the campaign definitely on an upbeat note," said Nixon. "But we've got to keep it that way. There's no overconfidence in this crew this time...
...mysticism. Graham, who thought of himself as an eccentric loner, often said that his work was not intended to be beautiful, but to convey information about the occult that would be recognizable only to a few. By the quirks of history, that pronouncement adds up to a surefire formula for popular success...
...Border and Midwestern states; indications are that he may use a similar strategy to try to win the general election. This makes sense particularly if one bets that conservative sentiment will run wide and deep between now and Election Day, and by no means only in the South. This formula might lose Northeastern states?but it might also attract significant numbers of disgruntled voters in the North. This plan is reinforced by the echoes of riots past and prospective. A bloody battle was raging in a Negro area just across Biscayne Bay from Convention Hall. Each ghetto upheaval will make...
...this would require elections, perhaps a series of them, and how these could be kept free and fair in Viet Nam, corroded by war and ill-trained in the disciplines of democracy, is a staggering problem. "You exercise your ingenuity," says a U.S. diplomat, "trying to find some formula by which everyone thinks he would have some chance to win a nonviolent competition. But somebody's going to be wrong." Outside the Government, a great deal of ingenuity has been applied in recent months to devising "scenarios" of how the war might be ended, the peace structured...
Zapping a Toothpick. That incident, too recent for inclusion in this hastily updated book, nevertheless echoes the theme: the Administration's attempts to arrive at a formula for peace have been less than brilliant and often self-defeating. The President of the U.S. has spent an extraordinary amount of time poring over reconnaissance photographs, trying to decide whether a toothpick bridge can be zapped without damage to nearby tenement hovels. But for all this attention to minutiae, he has been unable to exercise control at some crucial moments...