Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is never absolute equality of treatment, and the trial of Nixon would be extremely divisive for the country." His Chicago colleague, Law Professor Gerhard Casper, thinks a Ford pardon would be an "act of grace." It remains to be seen whether that view will accurately distill into the mood of the nation in the months ahead...
...nearly two years, Watergate had divided and confused the American people. Now there was a unifying mood: relief that the doubt and turmoil were over. But the actual announcement came as an emotional anticlimax to many people. As one anti-Nixon man in Wilmington, Del., put it, "This just doesn't feel as good as I thought it would." On the other hand, many Nixon supporters quickly became resigned to abdication. "It's sort of like an inoculation," declared New Hampshire Forester Robert Breck, who had voted for tickets carrying Nixon's name in eleven elections...
...through a spell of euphoria, we are so glad to have this Nixon business behind us. But bear in mind that no amount of mood can change problems, particularly economic problems. It may be that Gerald Ford will have such an enormous reserve of popular confidence upon which to draw that he can do things unpopular and unbearable if done by anyone else. After all, what people want at the moment is good, straightforward, simple, believable government. They think they are going to get it, and they are happy about...
...antagonist, or at least exhilarated to report one of the biggest stories of their time. In fact, exuberance was rare. Said Chicago Daily News Washington Bureau Chief Peter Lisagor: "There was an inexorability to it all, and it turned into a death watch." CBS Correspondent Dan Rather echoed that mood when he described TV coverage of resignation night as "perhaps a little too funereal...
...Somber Mood. Indeed, the solemnity of a presidential abdication masked the hostility that many felt on both sides. Newsmen studiously avoided gloating, and neither Nixon nor his aides renewed their old attacks on the press. Within two hours of the resignation speech, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler went to the podium of the White House briefing room for the last time to praise the "energy" and "intelligence" of the startled reporters before him. Ziegler had become the unhappy symbol of White House deception, and his paean to the press drew a few titters. But there was none of the rancorous repartee...