Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principal concern was not our Soviet policy but our domestic situation, specifically Watergate. What good was a strategy of containment if we sapped our capacity to implement it by our domestic divisions? He contemptuously dismissed the whole affair as a form of "breaking wind." He saw no objective reasons for an assault on a President who had done a good job: "The number of unemployed has been cut down and the U.S. dollar is relatively stable. So there doesn't seem to be any major issue. Why should the Watergate affair become all exploded in such a manner...
...interim agreement, too short a period. Perhaps we should aim for a new agreement that would run for, say, ten years, from 1975 to 1985. Gromyko accepted and the negotiations were placed in a different framework. Nixon and Brezhnev agreed to meet during the winter to implement the new approach...
Agrees Washington circuit judge Carl McGowan, "When you go on the bench and you're grappling with individual cases, you find it difficult to implement any theory of judicial review...I find it hard for the good judge to pin any sort of label on himself." Should Ely ever don judicial robes, "he'd be tripped up sooner or later by a case that doesn't fit. Ely on the bench would not be Ely in the book...It would be an evil man who would disregard justice and law to follow his own theory," McGowan says...
...always difficult to reverse the relationship with a subordinate. Yet I realized that coherence had to be restored to the White House. Nixon could not function without a strong chief of staff to shield him from the day-to-day management of the bureaucracy and to implement his decisions, and Haig was the only possible choice...
...during Watergate was not the investigations that formed the headlines of the day. It I was to sustain the credibility of the U.S. as a major power. We could-and did-take diplomatic initiatives; we could- and did-utter warnings against threats to our security. But the authority to implement them was beginning to seep away...