Word: nixonization
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...different Eisenhower was from Truman. When Ike left in 1961, he seemed a gray old man and there was JFK, young and bright and handsome and - as it seemed that first spring, after the Bay of Pigs - dangerously inexperienced. Lyndon Johnson, flying home from Dallas, transformed Washington overnight... Nixon after Johnson... Ford after Nixon, Carter after Ford, Reagan after Carter, and so on, to Bush...
Jackie answered with the famous comeback that to spend that much, "I would have to wear sable underwear." Yet in no time, Pat Nixon was telling reporters how she bought American designers and that she got them straight off the rack. Jack Kennedy was also courting the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, whose powerful president, David Dubinsky, was cautioning J.F.K. that his wife had to buy American. Jackie could see what the press would make her into. She wrote in despair to a friend: "I refuse to be the Marie-Antoinette...of the 1960s...
...China's official reaction denouncing the comments was predictable. Bush?s comments put him on a slippery slope, because they diverge from the "strategic ambiguity" tack that has defined the relationship for Washington all these years. Republican and Democrat administrations - including President Bush's father - have since Nixon's opening to Beijing embraced "strategic ambiguity" on Taiwan...
...fight for the spyplane has elicited a new round of censure from Washington, and has brought relations between the two countries to levels of frigidity unheard of since the pre-Nixon era. On one hand, it was refreshing to see that our government could get tough with China—that unrestricted trading access to the world’s largest market does not rule out justified retaliation. On the other hand, it is unfortunate that we were retaliating for none of the right reasons...
...sadness of Goldwater’s loyal organizer, Clif White, when he returns from vacation to find his power undercut by Goldwater’s self-appointed “Arizona Mafia.” In a book that is supposed to be about Goldwater, figures like Johnson, Nixon and White take up far too much space...