Word: nixonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...margarined and ready to be marmaladed. (Last week's presidential muffin-toasting performance was a special show put on in response to numerous requests by photographers.) A man of enormous energy and appetite, Ford nevertheless sticks strictly to Dr. Lukash's regimen, even manfully downing the Nixonian lunch of cottage cheese (Chef Haller says that the President has never been seen to cascade catsup on the curds), washed down with tea and lemon...
...however, hurt Nixon-inadvertently or otherwise-just as the 1960 presidential campaign was about to get under way. Asked whether any major Nixonian ideas or policies had been adopted during the past eight years, Ike said: "If you give me a week, I might think of one. I don't remember...
Others took a far less benign view of such Nixonian negligence. "I ask every doctor and lawyer and every insurance agent and accountant in the country, what kind of a land would you be living in if a group of hired hands have the power to come into your office in the dead of night in order to get one of your files?" protested Democrat Sarbanes. "Why was not the FBI brought into this matter if it was a legitimate matter for governmental actions? Because the plumbers were doing illegal things that the FBI refused...
...President hammered it home. Never, never, never. When Nixon found out that Michigan's Elford Cederberg had a daughter in the hospital, he insisted that the Republican Congressman take the floral centerpiece out to her. "I wish that we could do more," he said. Cederberg felt that the Nixonian sense of humor was sound, and so was the President's mental condition. Nixon was ready to talk about problems from the Soviet Union to congressional politics. "What stamina," Cederberg said later in the week...
Damning Evidence. Speaking as an advocate, St. Clair could hardly be expected to read evidence of wrongdoing into any Nixonian ambiguities. But many a reader of the transcripts did just that?and saw a record of presidential transgressions against both the letter and the spirit of the law. That...