Word: nixonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most controversial guest was Richard Nixon, whom Teng had asked to see because his 1972 trip to Peking began the chain of events that led to normalization of relations. It was Nixon's first visit to the White House since his resignation in 1974, and there were some awkward moments. Speaker O'Neill's wife refused to sit at the same table with him. The former President stayed in a corner of the East Room during cocktails, talking with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "I said that I was glad to see him again," said Kissinger...
Even the short drive from the Peking airport to his guest quarters had a profound impact on Richard Nixon in 1972. There were only a few planes at the airport. Hardly any other cars were on the highways. Masses of bicycles flowed down the city streets. Apartments and houses were gray, monotonous, wretched. The people reacted like automatons...
...David Freeman explained yesterday, when every position on T.V.A.'s three-man board of directors opened up last year, Jimmy Carter had an opportunity unprecedented since the New Deal years to play Franklin Roosevelt, to restore some of the creative, idealistic spirit that characterized T.V.A. before the Eisenhower and Nixon appointees took over...
...since the 1950s, T.V.A. has had "hardening of the imaginative arteries" as David Lilienthal put it. Especially under Nixon appointee William L. Jenkins, who resigned last May, the agency had become just another power company singlemindedly pursuing energy without regard for human costs. Through its dependence on coal it became a scavenger on the land; through its mania for dam and park building, the T.V.A. dispossessed thousands of people who had lived in the valley for generations. Communities with names like Energy, Wildcat and Turkey have been wiped out. Through its cultivation of nuclear power (it will have seven operating...
...voiced, informal lawyer (he wears short-sleeved shirts even in January) from Bremerton, Wash., O'Neal learned the ICC's operations as a consumer-minded staff member of the Senate Commerce Committee. He was named to the then eleven-member ICC (since reduced to six) by President Nixon in 1973, but it was not until Jimmy Carter made him chairman that he drew a bead on the set of regulations that had almost stamped out price competition in trucking...