Word: joiners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon has long been a joiner-"and what he joined he led," Jackson writes. "In sheer volume, the list of his presidencies is staggering: one man, a friend from college years on, estimates that he has voted for Nixon, for one office or another, either 13 or 14 times...
...Nixon, Mitchell and Agnew speak to Middle America, but they are not its leaders. Nixon, in fact, excites little of the personal enthusiasm that even Agnew can arouse. Nor does Middle America have any organization. The anti-Moratorium rallies, for example, were largely a failure. For all the great joiner's tradition in the U.S., Middle America is diffuse and tends to be private to the point of self-consciousness ?demonstrating is not its style...