Word: indirectness
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...present his annual State of the Union message personally to the Congress, with which he is feuding,-the first such omission by a President since 1956, when Dwight Eisenhower was recovering from a heart attack. Nixon's wholesale dismissal of various Administration officials similarly was accomplished through the indirect device of demanding the resignations of all appointees, then selecting whom to retain, rather than personally calling in the condemned to be fired...
South House voted last month not to send representatives the committee on the grounds that the selection procedure was may indirect and that the student ACSR members would have any real poser...
Dunster House has not yet picked its representatives and South House voted last month not to participate, objecting to the ACSR's lack of definite powers and to the indirect election of its members...
...introduce a new weapon to its arsenal the regulation of network programming through affiliate stations. In the proposed legislation, local stations will be held responsible at license renewal time for the "taste and balance" of network news and entertainment programming. The passage of this legislation would give Nixon an indirect power of censorship over the national networks and raises serious threats to the media's already tenuous First Amendment rights...
...criteria to extort platitudes and placebos from the national media. Local stations would have to pass muster or fold; even the station managers who agree with Whitehead's philosophy would pressure the networks to share the responsibility for modifying programming in 'line with the President's standards. Through this indirect, but potent mechanism, the press freedom of natural networks would be hedged in by Federal intimidation and fenced in by Federal penalty...