Word: nixonian
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...President hammered it home. Never, never, never. When Nixon found out that Michigan's Elford Cederberg had a daughter in the hospital, he insisted that the Republican Congressman take the floral centerpiece out to her. "I wish that we could do more," he said. Cederberg felt that the Nixonian sense of humor was sound, and so was the President's mental condition. Nixon was ready to talk about problems from the Soviet Union to congressional politics. "What stamina," Cederberg said later in the week...
Damning Evidence. Speaking as an advocate, St. Clair could hardly be expected to read evidence of wrongdoing into any Nixonian ambiguities. But many a reader of the transcripts did just that?and saw a record of presidential transgressions against both the letter and the spirit of the law. That...
...thought they were nuts! A prank! But it wasn't! It wasn't very funny! I think that our Democratic friends know that, too." Nevertheless, on occasion even John W. Dean III--generally consigned by the transcribers to the thankless role of a suck-up straight man--rises to Nixonian heights of sarcasm. "We were bugged in '68 on the plane and in '62 even running for governor--[expletive deleted] thing you ever saw," Dean's boss tells him. "It is a shame that evidence to the fact that that happened in '68 was never around," Dean replies...
...other hand, Shultz's basic abhorrence of controls, coupled with his occasional willingness to go along with them as a political necessity, helped to produce the erratic lurches from Phase to freeze that have marked Nixonian economic policy. Shultz recommended the abrupt lifting of the relatively successful Phase II controls in January 1973, a monstrously mistimed move that permitted inflation to gather renewed momentum. Last summer he reluctantly went along with the Administration's hasty and unsuccessful second price freeze but soon began working to remove controls again. The Administration has decided to drop them this spring, marking...
...distaste sprang from some rather politicized roots--his was the first class not even to remember the echoes of strike talk, the first class to feel guilty for its failure to strike in the Yard its freshman year in so far as it had not been numbed by Nixonian rhetoric. But a better part of his unsureness sprang from a general skepticism about an environment in which he did not know who lived next door to him, did not care, and prided himself for it as part of minding his own business. Beach probably...