Word: nixonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thank ol' Bob for keeping Nixon's aberrant behavior from destroying the nation: "Nixon said, 'There are ways to do it. Goddamnit, sneak in in the middle of the night...' (A perfect example of classic Nixonian rhetorical overkill.) I said, 'We sure shouldn't take the risk of getting us blown out of the water before the election.' (A perfect example of classic Haldeman effort to defuse another potential bomb)," Haldeman writes. Some other time, maybe...
...Born Again, a film adapted from Nixonian Hatchet Man Charles Colson's testimonial book of the same title, is to be released in June. Production began in Washington last week. Actor Dean Jones (The Love Bug), also a born-again Christian, plays the celebrated convert...
...heard from-but it is without a doubt the year's most socially useful film. Dan Jenkins' bestseller has been slow to reach the screen, and in the intervening years the subject of his satire-pro football's Lombardi era, with all its dark Nixonian overtones-has lost some of its edge. Adapter Bernstein and Director Ritchie have found a contemporary lunacy with the same rich possibilities in the human-potential movement, and for that they earn the gratitude of right thinkers everywhere. The Kilgore Rangerettes really ought to spell out their names between halves...
...being made. The man's ordeal has been severe. But for the nation, the overriding issue is not Lance's difficulties or his fitness for office but just what the affair has revealed about Jimmy Carter. Although the situations are worlds apart in both kind and importance, that familiar Nixonian question is at least remotely relevant: What did he know and when did he know it? Indeed, as various investigations continued last week, some officials who had been involved in checking Lance's record prior to his confirmation as OMB chief defensively raised charges of a cover-up by members...
...burglary by White House plumbers of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist becomes a break-in at a St. Louis courthouse; instead of psychiatric records, the squad is after police records. The fictional Lyndon Johnson orders the CIA to carry out an illegal hunt for any Nixonian dirty laundry before the 1968 elections. So far as is known, Johnson did no such thing...