Word: nixonian
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That approach is utterly Nixonian: set general goals and a deadline and let others work out the details. Nixon will not even be the man watching over the bargaining sessions and the eventual enforcement of pay-price rules. He has given that job to Connally, who will now have a vastly expanded stage on which to play his roles of charmer and back-room arm twister. Connally has plunged into the task with gusto. At a televised press conference last Friday, he was incisive, seemingly candid, pleasant and shrewdly disarming enough to give Spiro Agnew still more reason to fear...
...prologue to a drama that so far has the sketchiest of script outlines. Like an exceptionally thunderous overture, Phase I has startled an audience of some 200 million citizens into rapt attention, and set the mood for the performance to follow. Has it been the beginning of a Nixonian New Prosperity? Or of a rerun of the national tragedy of inflation and unemployment? That will depend on the program that the White House shapes for Phase II, which follows the end of the freeze...
...Nixonian rubric laid upon the Burger Court is "Strict construction of the Constitution." If history is any guide, critics will soon accuse the court of ignoring this mandate in favor of personal opinions or even partisan politics. And the shrewdest critics will be the nation's ablest court watchers-the legal scholars who often find the court guilty of faulty legal reasoning...
...some ways, a White House wedding reflects the style of a presidency. Luci Johnson was married in the largest Roman Catholic church in the Western Hemisphere?in a ceremony to which, as Comedienne Edie Adams said, "only the immediate country was invited." Tricia's wedding will obey a Nixonian instinct for the via media. It will be neither the largest nor smallest: a simple spectacular...
...christened last week with one of the most spectacular parties the capital can remember. Roaming Edward Durell Stone's $66 million marble-and-glass national cultural center were 3,750 paying guests ($100 each; $40 for those under 35). Together they constituted a gallery from Camelot and Nixonian Washington. Matriarch Rose, 80, led the Kennedys, including the Sargent Shrivers, the Stephen Smiths and Pat Kennedy Lawford. Joan Kennedy played piano with Bandleader Peter Duchin. Ethel Kennedy appeared with Singer Andy Williams. President Nixon was represented by David and Julie Eisenhower; they escorted Mamie Eisenhower, whose husband signed a bill...