Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Young People's Socialist League (YPSL) in a statement titled "Support the Moratorium." denounced Nixon's attempts to "buy off the anti-war sentiment in America," and asserted that "the moratorium . . . not only affords us a chance to protest United States policy in Vietnam, but also the chance to examine . . . United States foreign policy in general...
...that it coats it over with gooey legal semantics or refuses to deal with it at all. Clear light and creative action cannot be seen through the democratic quagmire. And thus the logic of preferring a George Wallace who says what he thinks and is openly repressive to Nixon or Humphrey becomes immensely more clear. So does the fact that government and polities really do operate in a Machiavellian universe...
...radicals grown out of last year's New Left, will probably abide by the Moratorium, one spokesman said, "but organizationally will ignore it." "This is no way to end the war," he added. "You can get the whole Senate behind it and nothing will happen. You can even get Nixon reading a statement condemning this and all wars and it won't make any difference. This war is about real things going on, we need to positively support...
...wage boosts. The old guideposts permitted annual wage increases of 3.2%, an amount equal to average gains in productivity over a long period. Now productivity is falling, and workers can hardly be expected to take wage cuts to match the decline in output per man-hour. As for jawboning, Nixon's Republican advisers consider it unfair and almost immoral to single out individual companies or industries, as Presidents Kennedy and Johnson did, for public or private attack over prices...
...Nixon has already had some success in convincing businessmen that economic exuberance will not continue indefinitely. Even so, many in the business community worry that rising unemployment or the approach of the 1970 elections may cause the Administration to lose its nerve and ease its battle against inflation too soon. After four years, the disease is too deeply embedded in the economy to be susceptible to a quick cure...