Word: nadir
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Nuclear Imperative. Though often thwarted, Johnson was hardly rendered ineffectual. Such are the powers of his office at home and abroad that even at the nadir of his presidency, he stirred complaints that he was becoming "King Lyndon." Historians and Congressmen alike began wondering whether the presidency had not grown too strong. Next month a group of historians led by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. will meet in Manhattan to consider that very subject. In the Senate, North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin began an inquiry into the division of federal powers, while Fulbright looked into the "overextension of executive powers...
Though such a reproach might barely have been noticed when Johnson was high in the polls, today, at the nadir of his popularity, it might be looked upon abroad as a vote of no confidence in all of his foreign policies. The President's current position, some members felt, is simply too weak to stand such a battering. Thus the resolution paradoxically became an even greater measure of Johnson's decline when it was blocked last week. Some such motion may very well pass the Senate this year, but it will probably be so mildly worded that even...
...brainwash' remark didn't make all that much difference. People were already looking for a reason to turn away." Most other G.O.P. strategists agree. From a commanding lead in the polls right after his impressive re-election victory in 1966, Michigan's Governor has reached a nadir; he is unlikely even to control the entire delegation from his own state. But Romney has been counted out before, only to stage a winning campaign. He seems determined to do so again in the primaries, and is already taking steps to soften the stiff, sanctimonious impression that...
...Doodlebug. That was the nadir of his career. With nowhere to look but up, McDonnell took aim on a $100,000 prize: the 1929 Guggenheim Safe Air-Craft Award, for which he and two associates built a plane they called "the Doodlebug." It was an open-cockpit monoplane that McDonnell hoped to peddle as "the aerial flivver of the future." It came close to consigning him to the past...
With all that, Clay can take credit for having doublehanded led boxing out of its racket-infested ignominy. In 1950, total gate receipts in the U.S. had dropped to a nadir of $4,000,000. Thanks to the class that Clay has brought back to the game, the take in 1966 was nearly $11 million...