Word: steadfastness
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FOREIGN POLICY. The new President was a steadfast cold warrior in the 1950s and a particularly hard-beaked hawk during the Viet Nam War. Yet when Richard Nixon began winding down U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and moving toward détente with the Soviet Union, Ford staunchly defended those policies on the floor of the House. He also approved Nixon's overtures to Peking, but concedes that he would not have made them had he been President then. "Not with my record of 23 years' opposition [to Communism]," he told a reporter. "But I approve...
Here, as elsewhere, a majority believes the President is guilty, perhaps impeachably so. But a battered, steadfast minority refuses to budge from its conviction that Nixon has done nothing wrong, and each side reads the tapes to buttress its view. Typical of the supporters is Bernard Shanley, a G.O.P. national committeeman from New Jersey. Said he: "The tapes have proved Nixon is not responsible for a crime, and no matter what people think of the transcripts, they do not have evidence that he committed a crime." Some Nixon supporters, Republicans, independents and even Democrats, fear the possibly cataclysmic effect...
...work of the senior class's top two choices for Class Day speaker: Russian dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the independent journalist I.F. Stone. Despite what would be sharp disagreements on specific political issues, both Stone and Solzhenitsyn have worked for the preservation of free expression and the steadfast defense of political liberties in their respective homelands. Richardson has shown himself willing to quash democratic movements in Southeast Asia, if need be through the indiscriminate bombing of people's homes, farms, and entire cities...
...bring more misery, degradation, and even death to loved ones than wars, disease and boozeless crime all put together, but loyalty will remain steadfast and true. Those who are dedicated to liquor will worship it, brag about it, shield it from criticism like a doting mother protecting a spoiled and criminal son, even when statistics show John Barleycorn to be probably our most expensive national "luxury...
...speech before a "Support Our President" rally in Los Angeles, Commerce Secretary Frederick B. Dent ran down the vile names that Lincoln was called, pointed out how Nixon's enemies were abusing him, then said, "But all they do is shame America ... through it all, our President stands steadfast." Writing in the New York Times, Franklin R. Gannon, a presidential aide, drew even finer lines. "Even the casual reader wary of undue comparisons will be struck by some of the pertinent and poignant political similarities between Mr. Lincoln's presidency and President Nixon's current troubles." Then...