Word: nixonian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixonian rubric laid upon the Burger Court is "Strict construction of the Constitution." If history is any guide, critics will soon accuse the court of ignoring this mandate in favor of personal opinions or even partisan politics. And the shrewdest critics will be the nation's ablest court watchers-the legal scholars who often find the court guilty of faulty legal reasoning...
...some ways, a White House wedding reflects the style of a presidency. Luci Johnson was married in the largest Roman Catholic church in the Western Hemisphere?in a ceremony to which, as Comedienne Edie Adams said, "only the immediate country was invited." Tricia's wedding will obey a Nixonian instinct for the via media. It will be neither the largest nor smallest: a simple spectacular...
...christened last week with one of the most spectacular parties the capital can remember. Roaming Edward Durell Stone's $66 million marble-and-glass national cultural center were 3,750 paying guests ($100 each; $40 for those under 35). Together they constituted a gallery from Camelot and Nixonian Washington. Matriarch Rose, 80, led the Kennedys, including the Sargent Shrivers, the Stephen Smiths and Pat Kennedy Lawford. Joan Kennedy played piano with Bandleader Peter Duchin. Ethel Kennedy appeared with Singer Andy Williams. President Nixon was represented by David and Julie Eisenhower; they escorted Mamie Eisenhower, whose husband signed a bill...
Connally's entrance into Nixonian Washington three months ago left both Republicans and Democrats startled and bemused by his aggressive talents. Said an old Texas friend: "He's not going to run the Treasury, he's going to run the Government." Since then, he has learned that the waters do not always part at his bidding. For example, Connally has been forced into a two month war of attrition with the White House staff to find an acceptable new Internal Revenue Service chief...
...uncovering of this group, which calls itself the Movimiento de Accion Revolucienaria and was supposedly aided by the Soviet Union, has given President Luis Echeverria's administration excuse to expel five too-ranking Russian diplomats and begin what some say is a new wave of political repression. In a Nixonian gesture, Echeverria appealed for national unity in the face of crisis while his Partido Revolucionaria Institutional (PRI) bought pages of advertisements in the country's major newspapers to print some of the thousands of telegrams of support sent the president by Mexican leaders. In conjunction with administration flag-waving, there...