Word: nixonian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since his increasing respectability as a Washington columnist, people have proclaimed the existence of a new Safire, but the old Nixonian Safire keeps popping up: there he was, calling Carter "the best U.S. President the Soviet Union ever...
...Spain murder priests under the approving eyes of Cabinet ministers, Francesco revives medieval precedent and threatens to place the entire country under interdict unless the culprits are punished. When a cabal of Cardinals plots to depose him, he dispatches them into exile with all the brutal efficiency of a Nixonian Saturday Night Massacre. "Declan, Declan," warns a purged friend on another occasion, "because you love no one, you think you love...
...model kitchen he was plugging? Wasn't he the nasty White House speechwriter who coined "nattering nabobs of negativism" for Spiro Agnew's attack on the press? His first columns insisted endlessly that Democrats were just as venal and hypocritical as his crowd. Remember his Nixonian attack in doggerel on John Dean, with the refrain, "He's a better man than you are, Gunga Dean"? His pieces were lively, if spiteful. They were sometimes relieved by his love of puns, which he has since learned to check. He continues with zest and doggedness but not always with...
Your Pompous Honor. Chief Justice Warren Burger has no love for the press, and the press no love for him. The press thinks he imperfectly understands why it needs First Amendment freedoms and suspects him of carrying on a Nixonian vendetta against the press. Still, it's hard not to feel some sympathy for the Chief Justice when reading a summary of an "investigation" of him in Jack Anderson's column"Our investigation turned up a number of disturbing facets of Burger's character, some previously reported and some not-but all ofwhich we confirmed. Put together...
Jimmy Carter, a product of the progressive politics that infiltrated the South in the '60s, harbors a strong desire to rid his region of old-guard conservatives and Nixonian Republicans. High on his hit list in this election were three of the most conservative Republicans: John Tower of Texas, Strom Thurmond South Carolina and Jesse Helms of Carolina. All faced strong challengers who received personal help from Carter. And all three Republicans...