Word: nixonize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...energetically as ever. In 1971 she dusted off a couple of past incarnations with a new play, Slam the Door Softly, that was characteristically full of tart one-liners ("I don't want alimony; I want severance pay"). A year later she held a reception for President Richard Nixon at her oceanfront estate in Honolulu before he met with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka of Japan. Luce held no position, official or otherwise, with the magazines her late husband founded, but she did not hesitate to let their editors know when she disagreed with them. In 1974, rallying behind an embattled...
...Such a frontal assault against civil rights had not happened before, not even under Nixon," he said...
Shorthanded benches have occurred before.After the 1969 resignation of Justice Abe Fortas, a year elapsed before the Senate confirmed Richard Nixon's third nominee, Harry Blackmun. The Justices postponed some of the court's docket and even ordered rearguments on some cases they did hear. "When the vote was 4 to 4, they simply stopped," says Thomas Krattenmaker, associate dean at Georgetown law school, who was a clerk to Justice John Harlan. In 1985, after Powell had been absent nearly three months for treatment of prostate cancer, the court announced eight tie rulings, although it also ordered rearguments in four...
...1970s there was widespread resentment as Watergate culprits cashed in with books -- among them, John Dean's Blind Ambition, Charles Colson's Born Again and John Ehrlichman's The Company. By the time Richard Nixon's book came along, in 1978, a Committee to Boycott Nixon's Memoirs had been born. Its slogan, "Don't buy books from crooks," failed to work; the Nixon tome earned him $2.2 million, and the hardback became a best seller. But the phrase caught the spirit of the only official ethical stand that Americans have ventured on sensational exploitations. In some 30 states...
They questioned whether Bork had the inclination or power to replace Cox with a strong successor who would pursue the truth. They said Leon Jaworski, Cox's successor, was named because the Nixon administration bowed to "a firestorm" of public opinion and congressional pressure...