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Nixon's final flurry of legislative vetoes, ostensibly to check federal spending, makes a second-term honeymoon with Congress highly unlikely. Despite Nixon's huge win, each elected legislator feels that he, too, has earned a mandate of his own. Too often Nixon was either overantagonistic toward Congress or blithely aloof concerning the fate of his legislation; he sorely needs to improve on his 1972 record of winning only 65% of the votes on which he took a clear stand (the lowest percentage since President Eisenhower's record in 1960) and on his taking such a position on only...
...uncertainties of Nixon's second-term economic policy, his general direction could hardly be more at variance with McGovern's. The President has been impressed by the passion of voter resentment against taxes, and he has been frightened by the parade of gigantic budget deficits that his policies have done so much to produce, even though those deficits have helped to set off the current surge in the economy. So he will give top priority to a tough hold-down in Government spending in order to trim the deficits and avoid any net increase in federal taxes. Ronald...
Beyond such fundamental matters of temperament and tone, some specific second-term strategies and policies are already discernible. Nixon's enduring interest is foreign affairs, and in conducting them he aims toward an "enduring monument of his Presidency," says Henry Kissinger with his characteristic modesty. In his first term, observes the President's foreign-policy architect, "the President swept away the previous structure of foreign policy and laid new foundations. In his second term he will put up the house." Elements: an end to the war, the diplomatic recognition of China, major trade and arms agreements with...
...style of Poe. In ninth grade he flunked everything, after the tenth he dropped out of high school. He entered Tufts College on a forged transcript, and when he was busted out a couple of months later he forged another and was admitted to Brown as a second-term sophomore...
...weakest guy on our side of the aisle to offer the motion," he told a fellow Republican. He picked Donald Riegle Jr. of Michigan, 32, a dove who Ford accurately figured would provoke maximum opposition to the doves' own cause. Riegle is a brash young second-term Republican who has offended members of the House by open criticism of his seniors. "They really had it wired," one dove said when he heard of Ford's choice. "They got this potato head to make the motion...