Word: hatcheteering
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...home, he manfully wages war not so much with the floundering Democrats as with a more dangerously hostile press, "which claimed it understood and spoke for the people better than he did himself." For years a critic of Nixonian hatchet politics, White has grown increasingly sympathetic to the now quieter Nixon style. Proudly and yet often painfully aware that he was "essentially alone" in everything he did, White writes, Nixon developed a remarkable "fatalism of outlook and a personal melancholy which added wisdom to his reflections...
Following the vote, Bok appointed a University-wide committee to draw up plans for the DuBois Institute. Surprisingly, Guinier agreed to serve on the committee along with Leonard and Patterson. The initial sessions of the committee have been fruitful, and it is possible that Guinier has buried the hatchet and agreed to forget about the acrimonious debate which surrounded the restructuring of the Department. In announcing the committee's appointment, Bok asked it to report quickly so that he could start soliciting foundation support for the Institute...
Presidential hatchet man Dan "Boom-Boom" Steiner added that the Jox had been in touch with Riggs to pick up pointers and strategy hints. Steiner would not reveal what these hints had been but only said, in typically sinister style, "They're in for a big surprise the day of the match...
Today, twenty years later, the same man -- enthroned in the citadel of the White House via a landslide mandate -- pleads executive privilege (for himself and a coterie of hand-picked hatchet men) before a Senate committee investigating a variety of felonious activities in his own administration. For a man who launched his national political career on the basis of his anti-fifth stance, Nixon's action reeks of unabashed hypocrisy...
This time, in a follow-up article in the Observer, he called the archbishop the Vatican's "universal hatchet man," adding that "there is no need for an embattled war psychosis which sees enemies lurking in every corner." Although Benelli is technically only a deputy to Papal Secretary of State Jean Villot, he functions as a kind of chief of staff to Pope Paul, overseeing and coordinating the activities of the entire Vatican bureaucracy, except in the area of diplomatic relations. Nicknamed "the Berlin Wall," he has the reputation of being authoritarian in administrative matters and an alarmist. Archbishop...