Word: milhousian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a moral one. Thus, in Carter's reign, there has developed a rather strange and selective nostalgia for the wheeler-dealer manipulations of Lyndon Johnson, and even, here and there, for the darkling touch of Richard Nixon. But when Americans thought that they detected something of that familiar Milhousian style in the Carter loyalty tests and Cabinet firings, they were not so sure that that was what they wanted after all. Effective leadership often requires a subtle exercise of power that Carter and his Georgians have had difficulty mastering...
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