Word: nixonian
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...personality change? A weekend encounter group? An inspired public relations man? What happened was Nixonian Washington, which with its button-down, square-cut, early-to-bed monochrome, tends to make any spot of color look bigger and brighter. But then too, Washington under any Administration has always had a special electricity for women?a current of excitement that brings out previously unrecognized or suppressed qualities...
...trouble with much Nixonian rhetoric about Southeast Asia is that it portrays a challenge to the U.S. by anyone anywhere as a blow to America's vitals. Because it is an unfillable prescription for intervention anywhere, it invites charges of hypocrisy. No world diplomat, even in the U.S., really believes that South Viet Nam is as vital to world stability as is Berlin, or that Laos is as crucial as the Middle East. Observes a White House official: "Politicians go for the cosmic explanation. But they should have learned that the credibility gap follows the cosmic explanation like night follows...
...More than Necessary. While the President reaffirmed his belief that the Brown decision "was right in both constitutional and human terms," he emphasized that he does not intend to press any harder toward desegregation than the Supreme Court requires. In a characteristic bit of Nixonian philosophy, he observed: "If we are to be realists, we must recognize that in a free society there are limits to the amount of coercion that can reasonably be used...
...long time, Nixon deliberately avoided raising any rhetorical pennants; he did not coin his own equivalent of the "New Frontier" or the "Great Society." Lately, he has settled upon the doctrine of a New Federalism-a formula that embodies the Nixonian ideal of power diffused downward to state and local authorities. The notion is not so different from the New Left's "Power to the People!"-except that Nixon has different people in mind. And unlike some participatory democrats, the President would keep the states and localities on a long, loose but authoritative federal leash...
...holding a formal banquet in honor of the Wyeths, topped by a reception at which the 200-odd guests will be entertained by Pianist Rudolf Serkin in the white and gold splendors of the East Room, where 22 of Wyeth's paintings will be on display. In the Nixonian view, artists in the past have been invited to the White House, as it were, to sing for their supper at a party for someone else. Under the new dispensation, the supper will be given to honor the artist himself. Nixon gave Duke Ellington a 70th birthday party last spring...