Word: nixonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...determination and 50 per cent worker representation on supervisory boards. No? Perhaps Sweden, social democracy, powerful labor movement. No? Let's start by eliminating the countries it couldn't possibly be--The United States. What do you mean, it is the United States. The Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and Milton Friedman United States...
Justices sometimes have a way of surprising the Presidents who appoint them. Earl Warren did not turn out to be the man of moderate Republican views that Dwight Eisenhower expected him to be. The Nixon appointees have grown during their years on the Supreme Court; not surprisingly, they have also grown apart. Chief Justice Burger himself maintains that building an ideological bloc was not on his mind when he came to the court, whatever Nixon may have intended...
...continued to press for school desegregation, tried to strike a balance on reverse discrimination and retrenched slightly on criminal rights. It clearly does not have the moral vision of the Warren Court, particularly in its attitude toward the havenots, but it certainly is not the conservative bastion that Nixon hoped to create. A decade after Burger became Chief Justice, the Supreme Court is the Burger Court in name only. In part, that is a reflection on Warren Burger and the way he has performed his role. In part, it lies in the peculiar nature of the institution and the complex...
...Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe. ''Yes, this court is un even and divided; it is feeling its way. But to do otherwise would undermine the credibility of the institution.'' If the lib eral Warren Court has not become the conservative Burger Court, if the Nixon appointees have failed to march in lock step, it should come as no surprise. It is merely a reflection of the integrity, and In deed sensitivity to U.S. society at large, of the Supreme Court...
...Timilty hasn't hesitated to step into the fray, of course. When asked about possible names for his seventh child, he said he hadn't considered the name Kevin because it is synonymous with weakness. The senator has compared the mayor to a Tammany Hall leader and Richard Nixon. And the daily press conferences he's held to draw attention to himself have featured posters like that one that has White's photo next to "Wanted. The $89 Million Bandit," a.k.a. The Mayor...