Word: loyalists
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...ignoring the agonizing question of the young has widened his estrangement from the power center; his criticisms of the Administration now extend to the war, economic policy, White House organization, treatment of the press and the leadership vacuum. At one dinner, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, a longstanding Nixon loyalist, concluded that the Cambodia invasion should have been quietly announced in Saigon as an expanded "raid" rather than trumpeted as something like Armageddon by Nixon on national television. At another party, Labor Secretary George Shultz argued intently that the time has come to put a muzzle on Vice President Agnew...
...swiftly destroy the sanctuaries and then withdraw into Viet Nam. But if Operation Total Victory runs into trouble, drags on or leads to deeper involvement, more domestic violence seems inevitable, with the nation's moral atmosphere becoming increasingly polarized and poisoned. Said Republican Senator Robert Dole, a party loyalist who also keeps a well-trained eye on sentiment back home in Kansas: "If it works, it's a stroke of genius. If it doesn't, he strikes...
Spong and Cook felt strong pressures from home to vote for Carswell. For Vermont Republican Winston Prouty, it was the other way round. He is generally an Administration loyalist; he stuck with Nixon on the ABM issue when most Northeasterners did not, and he supported the Haynsworth nomination. But the Senator faces a difficult reelection campaign against former Governor Philip Hoff, a liberal Democrat who had zeroed in on the incumbent as a Nixon rubber stamp. Moreover, the mail from Prouty's Yankee constituency ran heavily against Carswell, and the state bar association plumped for a no vote...
...kind that is becoming all too familiar. American forces are aiding a local dictator in trying to wipe out a terrorizing Communist guerrilla army. What the book amounts to is an intimate, aghast report by an invisible correspondent attached to a mixed patrol of Americans and somewhat loyalist Camaguayans delivering supplies to an isolated camp...
...Encountes, and again returned to literary attention in 1968 with the publication of The Year of the Young Rebels, a book about student activism. Mr. Spender is also well-known for his brief flirtation with communism while in Spain where he was writing poetry and translating the work of loyalist poets during the Civil War. He expressed his disillusionment with the movement later in an article contained in The God That Failed...