Word: nixonian
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...class received college acceptances not long after the inauguration of a President who would take dead aim at student activism, and not miss. We have witnessed the ascent of Nixonian Washington; we have watched its maestro change the face of America over the past four years, employing outright assaults on civil liberties, a determination to squelch or circumvent political opposition, and a jumbled conception of domestic and international priorities. Now that he has turned four years of criminal warfare into a so-called "honorable peace," we find ourselves in an odd position. We are the future of America at peace...
...Americans generally, and Congress in particular, felt only recently; and that is what is so terribly sad, that their efforts were so futile. In May of 1971, the U.S. government could round up 7000 Washington demonstrators in one day--10,000 in a week--and get away with it. Nixonian Washington had so undermined the credibility of students and the Left by then that most Americans visualized only a bunch of crazed hippies roaming the streets of the Capitol. A handful of people, such as those who marched in the Civil Rights movement a decade ago, understood the frustration felt...
...three days after its envoys signed a peace agreement with the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front. No, this was one man who embodies a perverse diplomacy built up in Washington war-rooms over a decade. Our generation has still to face up to a second term of Nixonian Washington...
...President's closest advisers warned businessmen and labor leaders not to regard the Nixonian step away from controls as the opportunity to make giant leaps in prices. For one thing, even the most recent decisions of the old Price Commission and Pay Board continue to be binding. Also, both Chairman Herbert Stein of the Council of Economic Advisers and Treasury Secretary George Shultz stressed that Phase III was made deliberately ambiguous-to keep wage and price decision makers in line by making them guess where the line is. Another White House adviser promised that surveillance of big corporations...
...Nixonian Washington, the weekend began on Thursday. The first event on the calendar was a reception for Vice President Agnew at the Smithsonian Institution. The affair lasted four hours, with four different groups allotted an hour each to see the man who might become their President four years hence. Later that night, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts housed a Salute to the States, in honor of the nation's Governors...