Word: nixonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
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...