Word: nixonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week one more Nixonian "never" became inoperative. Domestic Affairs Chief Melvin Laird suddenly announced that the President was "seriously considering" a variety of tax measures for some time in the future, including a "refundable" increase in personal and corporate income taxes...
...admit that much of the department's new-found activism actually began under former chiefs. "Policies tend to move rather slowly," he says. "In the course of a year, it's hard to say that it's this or that man who is responsible." But in Nixonian Washington, where politics has influenced practice in many supposedly non-partisan offices, Kauper's professionalism has won him the admiration of his department's 320 antitrust lawyers. "Kauper is seen here as competent and professional," says a department veteran, "and that's good for morale. He doesn...
...long run, the greatest hope stems from a belated but commendable reversal of Nixonian farm policy. Early this year, the Administration began removing restrictions on production of wheat and other feed grains, and now it has taken them all off. Agriculture Secretary Butz has announced that, at least through the end of next year, farmers are free to plant as much of these crops as they please. That will not prevent further painful inflation during the rest of 1973, but it should help slow food price rises next year...
Even with the admission of tapes, no one will ever master the entire vocabulary or thought processes of the Nixon Administration. But tantalizing glimpses are possible through the aperture of the Ervin hearings. By now, of course, the Nixonian cadre has turned a few phrases to bromides, notably the sci-fi sounds: "At that point in time," and, "In that time frame." Still, these clichés are excellent indicators of the Administration's unwritten laws of language: 1) never use a word when a sentence will do; 2) obscure, don't clarify; 3) Humpty Dumpty was right...
...home, he manfully wages war not so much with the floundering Democrats as with a more dangerously hostile press, "which claimed it understood and spoke for the people better than he did himself." For years a critic of Nixonian hatchet politics, White has grown increasingly sympathetic to the now quieter Nixon style. Proudly and yet often painfully aware that he was "essentially alone" in everything he did, White writes, Nixon developed a remarkable "fatalism of outlook and a personal melancholy which added wisdom to his reflections...