Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entrance and Nixon's exit, introduce the new President, his family and his team, recall Richard Nixon's extraordinary rise and fall, witness the agony of his family, assess his legal future. We also recapitulate the long, fatal Watergate misadventure that felled him, attempt to evoke the mood of the nation, and hear from various commentators about what last week's tragic yet hopeful developments mean to the U.S. and where the country moves from there. The consensus seems to be that democracy and the American constitutional system have triumphed...
...only fleetingly. Near the end of the half-hour talk, Nixon said: "I campaigned for a lot of people. Some were turkeys, but I campaigned for all of them." Where were they now? he mused. Most of them were voting to impeach him. But he abruptly broke that bitter mood. "Thank you, gentlemen," he said in dismissal...
...Hill. As they met on a day in which rumors of possible resignation were running wild, initially sending the Dow Jones industrial average up a startling 25 points by midday, the Senators were grim. Explained Tower later: "There was considerable concern that the President did not really understand the mood of the Senate, that he did not fully comprehend the peril he faced if he came to trial here...
...these few samples selected from a large number of similar articles, tone is championed over talk, mood over fact, surface over substance. James Reston spoke for most of the national press when he wrote in last Sunday's New York Times that "in the Federal capital, the character and style of the President, whoever he is, determines the attitudes of the Cabinet, the Civil Service, the Congress and the press." How many times have we read the unvarying elements of Gerald Ford's "character and style"--candor, integrity, fairness, sincerity, Grand Rapids roots, family, breakfast, bathrobe, swimming...
...impulses" and the "natural feeling" that the Liberty Mill so glorified. Mill understood that human nature was so far from naturally good that the ultimate object of education should be "restraining discipline." The man to whom conformity, obedience and even law were dirty words could demand, in another mood, the retention of capital punishment and call for a penal code "strengthening our punishments" rather than "weakening them...