Word: postmortem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during the 1970 elections, Agnew took the fight to the Democrats-and to errant Republican Charles Goodell of New York-with speeches crafted by White House ghostwriters and a relish reminiscent of an earlier Richard Nixon. His performance ran according to plan, but the results did not; in the postmortem, Agnew received a good deal of the blame for the Republicans' relatively poor showing. For once, Agnew staff members agreed with his critics in the press: the responsibility, they insist, belongs to some of the same White House types who are currently pushing for Agnew's removal. Says...
...work to keep themselves occupied. All the officers have been reassigned to new posts. Pollack and Smithlin are going to the Business School on a Navy training program. Others on the staff will split up to different reserve units in the East. One has the pleasure of leaving this postmortem for another at Brown, where the ROTC program will be closing out to meet Brown's June 1972 deadline...
...wiring in the tank. The fire in turn damaged the seal at the top of the tank and generated heat that expanded the oxygen. The resulting pressure caused the weakened area to burst. The board also detailed an extraordinary sequence of bungling uncovered by the $1,000,000 postmortem...
...events that were characteristic of the new culture emerging in New York's East Village and the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Don McNeill was a participant-observer of this culture, and he recorded its moments as they were happening, and as they accepted him, without any postmortem analysis or morning-after perspectives, McNeill presents the growing pains of the counter-culture intact and unviolated-the reader is free to judge them for himself against the chaotic results of the present-day aftermath...