Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that when Newsweek's Lester Bernstein commented on Agnew's speech over CBS radio in New York, he chose precisely the same words used by Mrs. Graham. But a partial contradiction of Agnew's charge of monolithism was produced by an issue close to Richard Nixon's heart. Last week the Post ran an editorial supporting Judge Haynsworth's elevation to the Supreme Court; WTOP opposed...
...Agnew's attitude recalled a 1920 quote by Lenin: "Why should a government that is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal than guns." To suggest even remotely that the Nixon Administration takes a Leninist attitude toward the press is patently absurd...
FROM the start of its fight against inflation, the Nixon Administration pledged not to copy Lyndon Johnson's controversial "jawbone" tactics. There has been considerable jawboning, but it is different from Johnson's. Johnson's jawboning involved White House pressure on specific industries against specific price increases. Nixon is substituting mild admonitions to business and labor en masse. Last month he wrote to 2,200 business and labor leaders, urging them to hold the line on wage and price increases. Last week he followed up by inviting 3,000 corporate leaders to the cavernous ballroom of Washington...
...difference should be kept firmly in mind." Labor Secretary Shultz said that the businessmen would have to face union demands without Government help, even in the case of utility or transport strikes. "We place our reliance on the free economy," he said, "so that our resolve will be tested." Nixon himself closed the meeting with a speech that asked business to "meet its responsibilities to make America the hope of the whole world." As for inflation, he merely repeated his earlier warning that businessmen who bet on its continuation are bound to lose...
...this turmoil indicates that the Administration is beginning to face an economic credibility problem, though not of the sort that it has been talking about. Nixon men have said that they are having trouble convincing business, labor and consumers that the Government will stick to its prescribed anti-inflation policy long enough to cut the rate of price increases substantially...