Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...timing was often terrible. When the U.S. was engaged in delicate negotiations with Britain about the future of Rhodesia, he said the British had "practically invented racism." Then he said there was just as much racism in Sweden as in Queens, N.Y. Then he said Presidents Nixon and Ford were racists, then that he himself was racist, which he defined as being unable to deal comfortably with people of another race...
...quick fixes have lastingly slowed the spiral. Temporary cuts in Government spending, coupled with a tight rein on monetary growth, as Richard Nixon tried in 1969, brought on recession and aggravated unemployment, but inflation stayed strong. Freezing wages and prices, as Nixon did in 1971, merely built up pressure for huge price increases later...
Dolan got into politics as a Republican volunteer in his native state of Connecticut and at 21 was a paid organizer in the 1972 Nixon campaign. "I'm ashamed to admit that now," he says. In 1976, as a protest gesture against the major parties, he voted for the Libertarians...
...like Amalya Kearse, 42, a black woman. She will sit on a U.S. Court of Appeals in New York, after the U.S. Supreme Court perhaps the most powerful bench in the country. One thing that has not changed: 95% of Carter's appointments are Democrats, just as 92% of Nixon's appointees were Republicans...
...Republican Club: sponsors of a tepid invitation to Richard Nixon, who wisely chose not to speak at Harvard. The invitation itself, though, caused a massive rift in the club. Joining this one means you are a good candidate for getting corraled into a lot of schlock work...