Word: nixonization
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...remarkable that there was so much hoopla over whether the New York Philharmonic's performance in Pyongyang could somehow have a lasting effect on relations between North Korea and the civilized world [March 10]. Not quite four decades ago, the U.S. table-tennis team ping-ponged to Peking, enabling Nixon to play the China card against the Soviets, but that only led to nearly two decades of détente. The only effective way to bring about the end of totalitarian regimes is direct confrontation. The U.S.S.R. fell because Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II confronted that...
...Abraham Lincoln was a one-term congressman with little to distinguish him, yet he was our most brilliant President. James Buchanan, Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon had excellent résumés, yet each failed when the U.S. needed strong leadership. Whether or not Obama is qualified on paper, he has all the tools for the making of a successful Commander in Chief. Luiz Bravim, Hollywood, Florida...
...Charlie Black, a lobbyist and senior advisor to the McCain campaign. But Black says he is not worried about the crowds. "Some of the biggest rallies in political history were for George McGovern," Black said of the anti-war Democratic candidate in 1972, who lost 49 states to Richard Nixon...
...complacent neighbors by doing something radical and “far-out.” Now everyone does it as a matter of course. There are awareness bracelets, awareness pins, awareness weeks, even awareness frying pans. And this long after other trends like the bell-bottomed pant and Richard Nixon have gone the way of the dodo. So what explains awareness’s continuing popularity...
...could get things completely wrong--including civil rights. But what made him formidable was the number of things he got right. Buckley almost single-handedly drove anti-Semitism out of acceptable conservative thought. He was leery of Ayn Rand, Richard Nixon and the Iraq war. And he was a staunch anti-communist. His fixed star was the idea of human freedom. A sure applause line in presidential candidate Barack Obama's speeches this year holds that "it's possible to disagree without being disagreeable." William F. Buckley Jr. was proof...