Word: good
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...with Richard Nixon?" asked Columnist Murray Kempton. San Francisco Folk Philosopher Eric Hoffer, who says that he was totally against Nixon before November, now recants. "The man is a total surprise," says Hoffer. "It's wonderful that a man who is so denigrated turns out to be so good. I glory in it." Few other observers share Hoffer's extravagant enthusiasm, but TIME correspondents around the country find that many others who voted for Hubert Humphrey also find merit-if only grudgingly-in the Republican President...
Traveling around Virginia and Pennsylvania last week, White House Correspondent Simmons Fentress found that most people give Nixon good, if not spectacularly high marks on his first 60 days. At the same time, the President has made almost no headway at all in converting the young and the blacks, who still view him skeptically. Nor has the Administration squarely met any of the problems that dominated the nation in the campaign-crime, disorders, inflation...
...White House. F.D.R., the aristocrat, became known, for example, as the man of the people. Dwight Eisenhower, the general, became the peacemaker. Richard Nixon, the abrasive partisan, has-so far anyway-been neither abrasive nor partisan. Though it is too early to speculate whether Nixon will be a good or bad President-it is probably impossible to be a mediocre President today-it is not too early to speculate, based on even such limited clues, what type of President he will...
Though Trudeau was to confer in Washington this week with Nixon on ABM and other questions, Tory Leader Robert Stanfield doubted that it would do much good. "What is the use," he wondered, "of going to Washington with an open mind when the President of the United States has already made up his mind...
...have always been a critic," Laird confessed last December after Nixon had named him to head Defense. "I used to have the reputation of being a good questioner," he said last week. He began his ABM testimony with a disarming prologue. "I come before you today with rather mixed emotions. On the one hand, I am happy to be back in the familiar surroundings of the committee hearing room. On the other hand, I have an uneasy feeling that I may be on the wrong side of the table-where one is expected to have good answers and not just...