Word: nixonian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moreover, the White House scored a sort of Pyrrhic victory. In two days of House and Senate hearings, Republicans could unearth no evidence that Clintonites used the files to construct a Nixonian enemies list. In fact, the Republicans could not establish that any officials above a rather low level had seen the files. G.O.P. probers who began last week thinking they might uncover a Watergate-size scandal ended up focusing on a less momentous query: Who hired Craig Livingstone...
...revelation about the Clinton White House is not a scandal. That was the case last week with the discovery of a 200,000-person database in the bowels of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Republicans tried to portray the computer system as an ominous Big Brother that harbored a Nixonian Enemies List. The Washington Times disclosed the existence of the "supersecret" computer system on its front page, next to an article about the FBI Fileflap. Aha! The White House really is keeping tabs on people like reporters, corporate executives and members of Congress. G.O.P. leaders pounced. John Boehner of Ohio, the fourth...
Shelley's Nixonian model was Pat, not Dick. For all her campaign experience, she seems to crave a privacy that is eluding her. Asked what type of First Lady she would be, she is hesitant, wary. "I would like to go back--I would not mind going back," she says in her soft voice. "I would be in more of a traditional role, but we would do some unique things." Like what? "I'd rather not describe them," she says, her voice trailing off, revealing as little as possible...
Wasinger himself would never be mistaken for a member of any Nixonian silent majority...
...uniquely Nixonian feat, the moral turpitude that marred his presidency will continue even after his death. In his book Beyond Peace, which is due out next month, Nixon writes, "Today, China's economic power makes U.S. lectures about human rights imprudent. Within a decade it will make them irrelevant. Within two decades it will make them laughable...