Word: nixonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought they were nuts! A prank! But it wasn't! It wasn't very funny! I think that our Democratic friends know that, too." Nevertheless, on occasion even John W. Dean III--generally consigned by the transcribers to the thankless role of a suck-up straight man--rises to Nixonian heights of sarcasm. "We were bugged in '68 on the plane and in '62 even running for governor--[expletive deleted] thing you ever saw," Dean's boss tells him. "It is a shame that evidence to the fact that that happened in '68 was never around," Dean replies...
...other hand, Shultz's basic abhorrence of controls, coupled with his occasional willingness to go along with them as a political necessity, helped to produce the erratic lurches from Phase to freeze that have marked Nixonian economic policy. Shultz recommended the abrupt lifting of the relatively successful Phase II controls in January 1973, a monstrously mistimed move that permitted inflation to gather renewed momentum. Last summer he reluctantly went along with the Administration's hasty and unsuccessful second price freeze but soon began working to remove controls again. The Administration has decided to drop them this spring, marking...
...distaste sprang from some rather politicized roots--his was the first class not even to remember the echoes of strike talk, the first class to feel guilty for its failure to strike in the Yard its freshman year in so far as it had not been numbed by Nixonian rhetoric. But a better part of his unsureness sprang from a general skepticism about an environment in which he did not know who lived next door to him, did not care, and prided himself for it as part of minding his own business. Beach probably...
...like Congressman Alphpnzo Bell are the ones who give politicians bad images. An elected Representative who insists that his personal conscience is more important than the wishes of his constituents reflects the very Nixonian arrogance that has created such a mess in the first place. Mr. Bell may very well find out that one of the wishes of his constituents is that he no longer be their Representative...
After some hesitation, White House spokesmen admitted that Nixon's speechwriters had drafted the Ford remarks. Apart from the surprising non sequitur that Nixon's resignation and Ford's ascendancy to the Oval Office would destroy Nixonian policies, the speech was an indication that Ford may have been sandbagged by the White House. Some White House aides had been told of the impending tape report, while Ford apparently had not. Yet he later gamely contended that he still believed what he had said. He lamely dismissed the tape revelation as "a technical and confusing matter...