Word: restraint
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...usual cool restraint had returned when he faced the television cameras half an hour later in the Oval Office. At Nixon's request, the crew of technicians was kept to a bare minimum; no aides, friends or family members were in the room to share his disgrace. There were no precedents at all in American history-and no exact precedents in world history, the resignation of West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt being perhaps the closest recent parallel-for the sort of speech that Nixon, a head of state departing under a cloud, was about to make...
...minute speech (see box) was delivered with remarkable restraint, given the circumstances, and without a trace of demagoguery or self-pity. There were no attacks on his old enemies, no visible bitterness. There was also no concession of anything more serious than "mistakes" in his handling of Watergate, and no hint of remorse except one line regretting "any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision." His statement that he leaving because his "political base in the Congress" had eroded sounded as if he had been defeated in some policy issue...
Throughout its six days of decision in July, spread over two weeks, the Rodino committee maintained a spirit of compromise. The reputedly hotheaded liberals, such as Michigan's John Conyers, California's Jerome Waldie and Massachusetts' Father Robert Drinan, spoke pointedly but with unexpected restraint. The Democratic majority allowed the language of the charges against Nixon to be softened or limited in order to appeal to impeachment-leaning Republicans. The articles on Cambodia and Nixon's finances gave defecting Republicans and Southern Democrats a chance to alleviate some of their home-district distress by casting...
...honor a fresh luster. Leon Jaworski, the lawyer from Houston, showed principle and courage. And then House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino, out of the tough precincts of Newark, looking more like a Hollywood bit-player than a pol, steered his committee through investigation, hearing and vote with good will, restraint and dignity...
...generalities, the tone and thrust of the President's talk proved that despite his politically successful fling with the easy-money, deficit-spending ways of Keynesian economics, he has returned with some relief to that "oldtime religion," with its emphasis on gradualism, balanced budgets and monetary restraint. Yet the message is not likely to dispel the public's thickening gloom about the economy...