Word: nixonian
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Connally's entrance into Nixonian Washington three months ago left both Republicans and Democrats startled and bemused by his aggressive talents. Said an old Texas friend: "He's not going to run the Treasury, he's going to run the Government." Since then, he has learned that the waters do not always part at his bidding. For example, Connally has been forced into a two month war of attrition with the White House staff to find an acceptable new Internal Revenue Service chief...
...uncovering of this group, which calls itself the Movimiento de Accion Revolucienaria and was supposedly aided by the Soviet Union, has given President Luis Echeverria's administration excuse to expel five too-ranking Russian diplomats and begin what some say is a new wave of political repression. In a Nixonian gesture, Echeverria appealed for national unity in the face of crisis while his Partido Revolucionaria Institutional (PRI) bought pages of advertisements in the country's major newspapers to print some of the thousands of telegrams of support sent the president by Mexican leaders. In conjunction with administration flag-waving, there...
...Nixonian play on Middle America's fears, perhaps best expressed in the November campaign, helped fuse black solidarity. The campaign ignored blacks, but in its stress on law-and-order, many blacks read a code for white fear of black crime, thus an anti-black slur. It encouraged a general turning inward that was already under way, creating a greater tolerance among blacks for other blacks' views and strategies. Integration-in the sense of accepting white values to the point where all black identity fades-is clearly no longer the immediate goal, not even for middle-class blacks...
...Proxmire had looked to the far end of the witness table at the Joint Economic Committee hearing, he would have seen a squat, tousle-haired economist who is partly responsible for reinforcing the Nixonian optimism. Arthur Laffer, 30, an associate professor on leave from the University of Chicago to serve as the OMB economist, has been in Washington for only three months. Few but Shultz seem convinced that Laffer's analytic methods are correct, but the academician's ideas have nonetheless provided Shultz with a basis to defend the Administration's forecast against doubts voiced...
Three weeks later, on November 7, the principal spokesmen of these groups met again in a pagoda near Saigon to pledge their support for the new movement- the Popular Front for the Defense of Peace (PFDP). They do not advocate just any "peace," and least of all a Nixonian "peace," but an "independent peace," drawn up by Vietnamese for Vietnamese. In fact, the PFDP's position as expressed in their ten-point manifesto is even stronger than that of the NLF/PRG...