Word: nixonian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign policy experience, but he is a driving, early-to-work industrialist who has built a family-controlled Chicago manufacturing business into a $1.2 billion conglomerate with global interests, including five joint ventures in Japan. The Japanese will find that Ingersoll has a passion for detail, a Nixonian conviction that the U.S. must not be "outsold" in world markets and, in contrast to Meyer, close ties to the White House...
Clearly a medium of the Nixonian message has been applied to Madison Avenue. Improved make-up and stylized lighting have erased his five o'clock shadow and Nixon-speak--Vietnamization, Phase II, incursion, game plan--and alliterative Agnewese ring in the inner ear. But no amount of pancake and greasepaint and well-placed Fresnels could gloss Nixon's profound physical gracelessness. There is a fatal slowness about the man that pervades his surprise announcements on national television with the forced enthusiasm and unsuccessful electricity of Ed Sullivan bringing on Baldy Laird and his Vietnamese Dancing Bear as the headliner...
...notes from his two separate flights to confer with Chou. All of those notes have been broken down by topic; the Chinese position on each subject is being exhaustively researched and a Nixon response or initiative is being outlined. Such intensive study is as necessary as it is Nixonian. Presidential aides concede that China has little to lose at the summit; if there is any way to take advantage of Nixon, the Chinese undoubtedly will...
...Ears. First, there is the Nixonian instinct for the unexpected. Says Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott: "Nothing would please the President more than to take the country by the ears with something like this." Nixon respects Brooke; as President-elect, he offered him a choice of three Cabinet-level jobs: Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and chief of the United Nations delegation. Since then, Brooke has opposed the Administration on major issues-the SST, the ABM, the Haynsworth and Carswell Supreme Court nominations. Last week he announced that he will vote against confirming...
...announcement carried a minor Nixonian surprise of the sort that perhaps explained why he avoided the fanfare and panoply of a prime-time presentation. While most speculation had it that the President would up the rate from the present monthly average of 14,300, which he did, he was also expected to project withdrawals well into the spring or early summer. To be sure, if Nixon extends the new, higher withdrawal rate past the end of January, U.S. force levels will be down to less than 50,000 by June. But he stopped short of announcing that...