Word: nixonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quote Seymour Martin Lipset as saying, "Carter is in the same boat as Nixon, looking good abroad while facing a sea of domestic troubles" [Jan. 1]. Of course Carter faces a sea of domestic troubles, but he does not look good abroad, certainly not in Europe. Americans can play it down or explain it away, but they should not ignore...
...most serious political problems of his presidency: his inability to lay claim to the unshakable support of any single constituency. Even though the legislative branch is filled with members of his own party, they received his speech with almost as little enthusiasm as they showed the pariah Richard Nixon in his last State of the Union message...
...define himself. He could not single-mindedly fight the Depression and the Axis as did Franklin Roosevelt. He could not push through a major civil rights act and wage a war on poverty as did Johnson. Few unexpected gestures seemed to offer themselves. The first opening to China gave Nixon an aura of authority in foreign affairs, and the Cuban missile crisis offered John Kennedy the chance to prove his courage...
Last week's Chinese-style wall posters and letter to former President Richard M. Nixon may be symptoms of a rift among the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club, club officers agreed last week...
Club vice president Kenneth G. Lucero '80 and secretary Nancy E. Achin '81 last Monday sent President Nixon a personal letter asking him not to accept the club's invitation to speak here in the spring. Lucero said yesterday the adverse publicity that followed the club's invitation "could only hurt the club...