Word: nixonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, in November of 1967 the Greater Laconia-Weirs Beach Chamber of Commerce had as its guest speaker the former Vice President, Richard Nixon, a loser in the 1962 California gubernatorial election and more recently a Wall Street lawyer. Nixon was aware of his reduced station. He seemed properly humble as he sat at the head table, listening appreciatively to the reading of the minutes of the last meeting. He even grinned at the jokes told by the chairman of the organizing committee for a forthcoming dinner dance, who went into some detail about preparations, and told his listeners...
...POLITICAL LEFT has been in steady retreat for almost a decade now. Ever since Nixon took his massacre of Honest George to be a mandate to concentrate power and wipe out dissent, the left has been unfocused, uncertain, disorganized, and increasingly a non-force in national politics. The rise of a well-financed, politically savvy, media-smart New Right has hastened the public's giving-in to mega-corporate power...
...Kennedy charge with cries of "Chappawhat? Mary Jo who? Forget S 1." Ted's record in the Senate is one of long and principled support for progressive legislation, from full employment to national health to tax reform. But S1 and its renumbered offshoots make you stop and think again. Nixon wanted above all to stamp out the demonstrators who were impeding his efforts in Vietnam, and the journalists who were leaking state secrets, and the blacks who were rioting and attacking private property--so he sent his most rabid loyalists to prepare a bill to revise the criminal code...
Soglin said leftist groups were partially responsible for the downfall of two former presidents, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. Nixon's undemocratic way of dealing with the Left contributed to his resignation, he said...
Leaning heavily on material in William Shawcross's highly critical book, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia, Frost disputed Kissinger's contentions that Prince Sihanouk tacitly supported the bombing of North Vietnamese "sanctuaries," that there was no danger of civilian casualties, and that the U.S. had not violated Cambodian neutrality. Replied Kissinger: "It is an absurdity. . . to say that a country [North Viet Nam] can occupy part of another country, kill your people and that then you are violating its neutrality when you respond against the foreign troops that are on that 'neutral' territory...