Word: nixonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign policy event of the Nixon presidency evoked such outrage as the Christmas bombing. On no issue...
...unjustly treated. It was not a barbarous act of revenge. It did not cause exorbitant casualties by Hanoi's own figures; certainly it cost much less than the continuation of the war, which was the alternative. A decade of frustration with Viet Nam, a generation of hostility to Nixon, and-let me be frank-exasperation over his electoral triumph, coalesced to produce a unanimity of editorial outrage that suppressed all judgment in an emotional orgy. Nixon chose the only weapon he had available. His decision speeded the end of the war; I can think of no other measure that...
...again at Gif-sur-Yvette for what we both had promised would be our last round of negotiations. The breakthrough came on Jan. 9. It was Nixon's 60th birthday. I reported to Washington...
...Nixon flashed back: "If the other side stays on this track and doesn't go downhill tomorrow, what you have done today is the best birthday present I have had in 60 years...
...returned to the U.S. on Jan. 13, stopping in Washington to pick up Haig for the trip to Key Biscayne. I reported to Nixon around midnight; we met until 2:30 a.m. Though I was unhappy with some of Nixon's actions toward me, though I objected to some of his tactics, I felt that night an odd tenderness toward him. He had seen our country through perilous tunes...