Word: governability
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...provincial elections in June. Heath had billed his two-day visit-its ostensible purpose was to attend a memorial service for former Prime Minister of Ulster Lord Brookeborough-as a "stocktaking" trip, to find out why Ulster has not made more progress in figuring out a way to govern itself. In reality, it was probably closer to tail-kicking. The Prime Minister has carefully avoided making any threats that the British might withdraw their military forces from Ulster. Nonetheless, several planned leaks in the press have indicated that that could be a possibility. Conferring separately with spokesmen for all major...
Asked whether he still had the capacity to govern, Nixon said that "to be under a constant barrage-twelve to 15 minutes a night on each of the three major networks-tends to raise some questions in the people's minds with regard to the President." Furthermore, he said, "most of the members of the press corps were not enthusiastic" about his reelection, and as a result, some were trying to "exploit" Watergate...
Despite such dangers - especially in the area of foreign policy - Hughes reassuringly ends by arguing that the presidency, as Montesquieu felt govern ments should be, has been slowly tailored by a succession of men to suit the people, the country and the times. Any new, radical limitation of presidential power would weaken the country -and likely prove ineffective. There is probably in the long run no better, safe way than we now have to protect ourselves from totally misguided or unscrupulous Chief Executives...
...policy on the tapes "a grave mistake," and added that "people with nothing to hide do not hide things." On the other hand, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, a loyal Nixon supporter, pleaded for restraint to prevent "the current overkill" from damaging the President's ability to govern...
...emotional post-midnight session of the National Assembly, Bhutto argued that it was time for "mutual forgiveness and understanding" to govern relations between Pakistan and Bangladesh, formerly Pakistan's eastern wing. "We want to meet one another; we want to embrace one another; we want to shed tears over one another, over what has happened in the past," he declared. The Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution authorizing recognition of Bangladesh as an independent country...