Word: nixonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weary. So for the moment, the Nixonian star is ascendant?not so much because the President has captured and guided the nation's imagination but almost by default. Indeed, there are those who suspect that this election has as much to do with 1976 as 1972: an enormous Nixon victory might enhance the party's post-Nixon chances four years hence...
Each candidate has a resonance to his own America. Within each constituency, voters repeat their candidate's themes and even rhetoric with a precision that is sometimes eerie. A one-word common denominator prevails in the Nixonian America: the sense of "system." The free enterprise system, the law-and-order system, even the "family unit" system?they are the recurring images among Nixon supporters. Their antonym is "chaos," not Utopia. They are apprehensive of the disorders that the late '60s adumbrated to them, the turmoils that they suspect a McGovern accession might bring...
...Mamie Eisenhower-and perhaps some time out for golf. The only real drama should come on the third day, when the President will end months of speculation by answering the vice-presidential question: Will it be Spiro Agnew again? Or former Treasury Secretary John Connally? Or some unsuspected Nixonian surprise...
...troops into the conflict, rather than pulling them out of it. This mysterious dichotomy between act and word cannot be explained as an attempt to deceive the enemy; the Communists watched the U.S. troopships leave, coolly ignored Nixon's warnings and attacked more massively than ever. The Nixonian rhetoric seems to reveal a misplaced fear that the American psyche cannot handle any tinge of "defeat" or abandonment of professed "principle" in Viet Nam. The President appears to be fighting the phantom of a mythical constituency on the American political right, a spectre perhaps shaped by his own past...
...years he was the White House assistant in charge of the research and writing staff. Afforded an excellent view of both sides of the fence, Keogh has written what amounts to the latest installment of the President's brief in the argument. In fact, he sometimes sounds more Nixonian than Nixon, conveying a sense of bitterness that the President himself avoids, at least in public...