Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediately determine what it was. In about three months, my engineering officer recommended that the third shift be terminated - much to my sur prise. His explanation was that the young Lieut. Nixon had been so successful in performing, not through technical competence but through the sheer weight of enthusiastic leadership, that the night shift produced so well that they were even performing checks scheduled for the day shift...
...Nixon's quiet leadership techniques took hold throughout the squadron. I am sure that his leadership qualities will stand all Americans in good stead these next four years...
Thus Nixon took extraordinary pains in framing his inaugural address. After maintaining a low silhouette since the election, he was anxious to set the right note with which to begin the exercise of leadership. The process began several weeks ago with requests for drafts from three of his speech writers and idea men, William Safire, Patrick Buchanan and Raymond Price. Nixon himself had read every previous inaugural address, picking as his favorites Lincoln's second inaugural, both of Wilson's, F.D.R.'s first three, the Kennedy speech and?surprisingly?the baroque oratory of Democrat James K. Polk. A favorite Nixon...
...private energies on a far greater scale. Ideally, it could also set a new standard for federal officials' performance. Promotion and pay raises might well go mainly to officials who liquidate their programs fastest and release more money for new federal efforts. The goal should be to enlarge federal leadership and contract federal bureaucracy at the same time...
...lower military expenditures to the pre-Viet Nam figure of 1964 ($62.1 billion in 1969 prices), but such reductions as he can make will increase his fiscal dividend, his power to spend more on domestic needs or to lower taxes. Any substantial move in this direction would require determined leadership and entail some risks, but would also offer great rewards...