Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instructions, Haig advised Haldeman to put his appeal in writing. Haldeman and Ehrlichman's attorneys promptly submitted a memo. But Nixon was irritated by the whole incident, thought it was a bad time to pressure him, considering his own difficulties, and rejected any pardon. Ehrlichman tried a different tactic, telephoning Friend Julie Eisenhower, but he made no better progress. Sourly, and with no supporting evidence, one associate of the two aides concluded: "It's possible that Nixon turned his back on Haldeman and Ehrlichman because his own pardon deal was set and he didn't want to queer...
Hart faced a special problem: he had to distinguish himself from his primary opponent, Herrick S. Roth, 58, who, it so happened, had worked in Colorado for McGovern. Hart's tactic was to attack not Roth but Republican Senator Peter Dominick, 59, who will be running again in November. Hart charged that Dominick, the chairman of the Senate's Republican Campaign Committee, had concealed the source of money received in 1972 from a dairy cooperative and passed it on to the Committee to Re-Elect the President. "Hogwash," said Dominick. Hart, he said, was "a liar...
...Kippur War-and now the water war. Last week, when Soviet minesweepers intruded into Israel's waters in the Gulf of Suez, Israeli Hornet patrol boats confronted them. What could the Russians do to rid themselves of the pesky Israelis? The Soviet captain finally decided on an unusual tactic: he had his crew fire water cannons at the Israeli boats, causing them to duck out of range. But they remained on station, and the Soviets finally left the same day. Israel has complained to the U.N. for weeks about territorial violations by Soviet sweepers and helicopters, and is keeping...
...Douglas and Vito Marcantonio, a Communist-lining Congressman from New York's East Harlem, had cast 354 identical votes in the House. A lot of others had voted with Marcantonio on many issues, including Nixon, who sided with him 112 times out of roughly 200 votes. Still, the tactic earned Douglas a label that stuck: "The Pink Lady...
Shapiro's attacks on the bounties of popular television are pratfall absurdist, his dithering humor a hybrid of Robert Downey (Greaser's Palace, Putney Swope) and Carol Burnett. Shapiro's tactic is to restage some popular forms-a commercial, an adventure series, the 6 o'clock news-with all due attention to nuances of style. One of The Groove Tube's best sequences, for example, is a Butz beer commercial...