Word: nixonian
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...Ears. First, there is the Nixonian instinct for the unexpected. Says Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott: "Nothing would please the President more than to take the country by the ears with something like this." Nixon respects Brooke; as President-elect, he offered him a choice of three Cabinet-level jobs: Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and chief of the United Nations delegation. Since then, Brooke has opposed the Administration on major issues-the SST, the ABM, the Haynsworth and Carswell Supreme Court nominations. Last week he announced that he will vote against confirming...
...announcement carried a minor Nixonian surprise of the sort that perhaps explained why he avoided the fanfare and panoply of a prime-time presentation. While most speculation had it that the President would up the rate from the present monthly average of 14,300, which he did, he was also expected to project withdrawals well into the spring or early summer. To be sure, if Nixon extends the new, higher withdrawal rate past the end of January, U.S. force levels will be down to less than 50,000 by June. But he stopped short of announcing that...
...scale of Nixonian surprises, it registered only as a medium astonishment. Yet the President's nominations to fill the two vacant Supreme Court seats were delivered last week in a shrewd performance that left his critics, for the moment, in contortions of simultaneous dismay and relief...
Rehnquist's personal style is not quite typical of Nixon's Washington. Alone among all the higher officials of the Justice Department, he sports long sideburns and bright shirts with clashing ties. But as the Attorney General's chief counsel, Rehnquist has been a hardline Nixonian: early on he became noted as an outspoken Government hawk on questions of law-and-order...
...fact, only Trick E. Dixon himself proves tedious in such company. Always making one thing perfectly clear. Nixonian parodies are inevitably too pat, always threatening to become mere one-joke affairs...