Word: nixonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transcript of a conversation in the Oval Office, Richard Nixon comes off as alternately aggressive and defensive, attacking the Democrats and then justifying his own campaign tactics. Just another snippet of dialogue from the White House tapes that unwound Nixon's presidency? No, the conversation was taped on June 29, 1954, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who told then Vice President Nixon that his ''castigation'' of the Democrats was damaging the Administration's efforts to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy...
...itself, which resembled a supply cabinet, was installed by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the nearby office of Eisenhower's personal secretary, Ann Whitman. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and some other officials knew of its existence, but most who were recorded apparently did not. Unlike Nixon's sophisticated system, the Eisenhower machine was not voice activated, but controlled by a switch at Ike's desk...
...Harbor. But Scott County has yet another headline on the way. From the heart of the fundamentalist coal-mining community comes the Republican Party's highest elected official and newest presidential contender--Sen. Howard H. Baker, Jr. After twelve years on the Senate sidelines, watching party colleagues like Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford carry the ball and fumble, and three vice-presidential nominations, the 54-year-old Senate minority leader now thinks it's time...
...Senate Watergate investigation, he is one of the few who was able to turn the hearings to his advantage. Letters poured into the senator's office encouraging him to run for president. The dimpled photogenic Baker, who exchanged backwoods lawyer logic and Southern wit with the parade of Nixon appointees and committee chairman Sam Ervin, gained a following that he has not yet lost...
...might be thought by any observer from that region of the country known as "Away" that the Chamber had rudely refused to curtail its customary order of business because its members figured Nixon's hopes were only slightly more realistic than Harold Stassen's. My guess, however, is that these New Hampshire Republicans knew he was going to win. They did not approve of anyone, even a member of their own party, who wanted to associate himself with the Federal Government, and they intended to show their feelings while they had the chance...