Word: overdog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Above all, there is the damage to the country's self-image. One of the most persistent and persuasive observations by Viet Nam commentators has been that the war, and the revelations of My Lai, the perversity of the overdog, the abuses of power, conspired to destroy not only the sense of America's omnipotence but the sense of American guilelessness as well. And yet, how true will that prove...
...falls short. The seemingly gloomy prospects do not daunt Eleanor. "My husband does not give up easily. And neither do I," she says with a glint in her eyes. Nor is Pat Nixon ebullient over certain success. "Listen," she says, "you can never worry too much about being an overdog. Politics is a funny business: you're up one day, down the next." Up or down, the other campaigners of 1972 have measurably warmed and enhanced the unprepossessing political landscape...