Word: nixonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this kind of behavior. Wild as the Ayatullah seems to be, he would not dare to touch the Soviet embassy. The point is that the Soviets are in a position, and of a disposition, not to take such events lying down. The fact of the matter is, as Mr. Nixon used to say, if we want to be a pitiful, helpless giant, we're well on the way to seeming...
...Shah, 60, has been recuperating from surgery by watching old movies on television and receiving such visitors as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Singer Frank Sinatra and Tricia Nixon Cox. He declines to talk to the press, but his aides last week said that he was willing to leave the U.S. if his departure would help free the Tehran embassy hostages...
...tempting to go into hibernation from now until election day. Campaign promises, after all, have never been an accurate way to predict presidential performance. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt campaigned for a balanced budget. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson won election as the candidate of peace. In 1972, Dick Nixon promised to take crime off the streets. In 1976, Carter--now father of the Department of Education, supporter of the M-X missile and across the board increases in military spending--promised to be a fiscal conservative...
...Nixon dumped Helms when he failed to provide sufficient cover-up for Watergate. In departing, Helms once again took the rap for what his superiors had ordered. He was charged with lying to a Senate committee about the CIA's role in the attempt to prevent Salvador Allende from becoming President of Chile, a Nixon-Kissinger project he had vainly opposed. Helms was fined $2,000 and received a two-year suspended sentence and a lecture from the judge about telling the truth. He felt it was his job to keep the secrets, and that he did - pointing...
...trend that invites such inquiries has been developing for quite a while. It had started well before it was dramatized in the memorable gymnastics of Sammy Davis Jr. flinging his little arms about Richard Nixon. Franklin Roosevelt, in fact, enlisted Playwright Robert Sherwood as a ghost, and subsequent Presidents increasingly turned to theatrical artisans for help, especially after TV got big. By the 1970s the political scene seemed so stagey that Anthropologist Edmund Carpenter was moved to say that "the White House is now essentially a TV performance." He exaggerated, but not by much...