Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Written by a self-described "inside the barricades" White House staffer whom even Nixon's harshest critics always viewed as one of Nixon's "good guys"--a gentle idealist, devoid of malice and full of integrity--With Nixon should be read by all who maintain a fascination, morbid or otherwise, with Richard Nixon and his White House years...
...Nixon's troubles were largely self-induced, even lusted after. The great irony of his life is that after seeking ultimate power for three decades, once he achieved it he remained overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness...As his perversions of power multiplied, he could only maintain his own sense of morality by stoking the fires of grievance which had fed him for so long. So he courted new enemies, new mortifications of the spirit. And ultimately, the enemies who had once been largely his own private demons became very palpable foes who tracked him down and destroyed...
...well as domestic economic and energy issues. Nixon still occasionally speaks with unnamed national and international statesmen, the confidante reports, though "they're not coming to him for advise and counsel and that sort of thing. A lot of them are friends of his. They're just trying to maintain some personal contact," Price adds...
...from a dreadful 1976 campaign to fall short of a playoff berth. "My role is to keep our concentration level up," the friendly native of State College, Pa. said after his election. "Our intensity dropped a few times this year--like against Tufts and Williams. My job is to maintain a certain level, to achieve some consistency," he explained...
...report, criticizing the majority budget report as overly concerned with Princeton's financial status, and calling on administrators to set a budget that would preserve what he called the university's "educational endowment." He suggested considering more seriously a proposal to spend the endowment's principal in order to maintain Princeton's quality of education...