Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeal of resignation is precisely that it requires no charge, no evidence, no investigation, no due process, no specific grounds. Is that the kind of constitutional precedent we want to set? We doubt that our institutions ought to evolve toward changing Presidents with every change in the public mood. The House of Representatives ought to proceed with its impeachment investigation. If grounds for impeachment are found, so be it. But we are suspicious indeed of having a President forced from office in some extra-constitutional manner...
These results indicate that nothing has happened to relieve the general mood of public despair. Nor have Americans' opinions about how well things are going in their personal lives changed significantly. Putting this seeming paradox together with answers to other questions, Yankelovich analysts conclude that Americans are "undoubtedly leary" of any change, like impeachment, that could upset their own personal sense of well being...
...Jewish-and New York, the city with the world's largest Jewish population (1,836,000), surprisingly has never had a Jewish mayor. He promises to run a much more tidy ship than the flashy outgoing mayor John Lindsay. Steady as she goes suits New Yorkers' present mood...
Haldeman's mood was decidedly up. He quipped about his new long hairstyle ("I gave up the crew cut because it's getting pretty thin on top") and the number of flights he has been forced to make to Washington on Watergate matters: "It seems I'm involved in a new Government recreational program to keep the unemployed occupied...
...think the reason for the new mood is that the student movement in the sixties failed, and failed in two ways, one political and one personal. Politically, it failed to win its major demands, or even very many of its minor demands. (Students certainly did play a role in the process which eventually ended the war in Vietnam, but this success was so long in coming that many counted it as a failure.) In the media, the latter part of the sixties was a radical, even a revolutionary time. But the majority of Americans moved Right, not Left...