Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efficiency that he has time for other things. It is true that Nixon, unlike his predecessor, is fairly serene about delegating authority and awaiting reports from his subalterns. It is doubtless also true that a President need sign only one piece of paper a day-if it is the right piece:of paper...
Actually, the Republicans preferred, if possible, to avoid an ideological showdown in this week's voting. For one thing, the minority leader under a Republican President acts more as an executive officer taking orders from the White House than as a commander in his own right. Even so, the liberal-moderates and the conservatives, divided more or less evenly, were guarding their interests...
...Senate has long exercised its right of advice and consent to question nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court on their qualifications and their opinions. Last week the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee broke some new ground as they opened their hearings on President Nixon's nomination of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. They raised a question of ethics...
Haynsworth was ready to defend himself against all charges. He said that he agreed with Supreme Court rulings outlawing separate but equal education and upholding the right of indigent defendants to counsel. But he declined to go into detail on these issues on the grounds that his comments could hinder him if he should actually sit on such cases. He did, however, rebut the conflict-of-interest charge vehemently. Stuttering slightly, he not only denied any impropriety, but also held that since his company was not directly involved, he in fact had an obligation not to disqualify himself from...
...themselves as the politicians saw them. The result was a fairly even division. Of those polled, 32% regarded themselves as conservatives, 30% as middle-of-the-roaders and 28% as liberals. When Field recently asked Californians to take another look at themselves, the results reflected a swing to the right. Of the 1,006 questioned in the poll released last week, 42% now see themselves as conservatives and 27% as moderates, while only 24% still feel comfortable with the liberal label...