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Word: nonleadership (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understandably reluctant to engage the Democratic Congress in dispute. His priorities were Viet Nam and inflation; he wanted no damaging distractions. The President's main goals are unchanged today, but his political position has altered. His Administration is under attack on several issues and he stands accused of nonleadership. His relations with Congress having already deteriorated, Nixon has nothing to lose by going on the offensive. This week he lodged a polite but unmistakable indictment of the Democrats. He sought to show that they, rather than the Administration, are responsible for the year's slim legislative pickings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Polite Indictment | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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