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