Word: nixonian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Complicating the budgetmakers' problem in striking the proper balance between federal income and spending will be an attempt by the Administration to finally define what it means by "full employment." For twelve years, the official numerical definition has been a 4% jobless rate; Nixonian economists have long grumbled that that goal is now unrealistically low, but they have never set a new target figure, and have often said that there should not be one. To ensure that the budget gives just enough boost to the economy, however, they have concluded that they have to pick a number. Officials...
...Schlesinger has an Olympian gift for writing about the present as if it were history. Impeachment or not, he seems to take for granted that Richard Nixon's threat to the presidency is at an end. It is this possibly premature sense of post-Nixonian perspective that allows him to look back on the Viet Nam War as a blessing in disguise. Americans have long wondered whether the democratic consultations and the separation of powers required by the Constitution were compatible with modern world power. Since World War II, most of us (including Schlesinger, as he admits) concluded that...
...Nixonian toilette, Molloy considers it basically sound: "His problems aren't visual." The President, says Molloy, dresses like a successful businessman with small-town roots. This appeals to his constituency. "Nixon is smart enough to wear dark 'authority figure' suits and avoid 'Daddy-went-to-Yale symbols.' " Such political taboos include Saks Fifth Avenue pinstripes and "those itty-bitty, fishy-look ties"-Ivy League silks patterned with tiny birds, animals or fish. They spell snobbishness. Before candidates rush to their tailors with Molloy's notions, however, they should realize that some of his clients...
...indeed, he had already selected Stennis-that under no circumstances would any portion of the tapes be given to any court, and that Cox must agree not to seek any additional tapes or documents. Richardson's proposal for supplying transcripts had been definitely changed to allow only Nixonian summaries. The Attorney General later contended that his plan had not precluded Cox from pursuing more tapes in court. Cox asked Wright to put it all in writing...
...terror bombing of Indochina is in itself sufficient to make toppling the Nixon regime morally imperative. The continued bombing of the Khmer Rouge right up until the Congressionally imposed August 15 deadline betrayed any attempt of Nixonian "statesmanship" to rationalize its murders, and conclusively demonstrated the vicious insanity long buried in Nixon's psychology...