Word: whig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...numbers of participants proved another problem. Every morning at 9:30, a procession of 100 scholars and celebrities straggled out of the Princeton Inn, a long Georgian mansion sitting on the edge of a golf course, and wound its way through the Gothic arches of the Princeton yard to Whig Hall, the Princeton debating hall. There the group reassembled around chains of green-felted tables. The first day the tables were arranged in a horseshoe, which left some members separated by as much as 30 yards. The next day, the conference directors rearranged the setting trying to inject some sense...
...Arthur Schlesinger Jr. accused him of saying. He seemed rather to sense that talk of the previous days had gone to the other extreme, that the syle of reasoned discussion had detached the conference too much from the reality of the social crisis occurring outside of the sedate, columned Whig Hall, and indeed, outside of Princeton...
...terms of personal desire or aspiration," he said on a recent television show, "but I'm quite willing to be President." He hints that one term might satisfy him: "If you can't do it in four, you can't do it in eight." He is something of a Whig as far as the powers of the Presidency are concerned. He frequently deplores executive encroachments on congressional powers. The Presidency, he says, is not an "incarnation of all of the hopes and the aspirations of the country. I think that is to put too much of a burden...
...Latitudinarians. At one end of the presidential spectrum are the men whom New York University Political Scientist Louis Koenig calls the "literalists": those who, like Madison and Taft, interpreted their powers narrowly and subscribed to the Whig theory of the President as an errand boy for Congress. At the other end are what Yale Historian John Morton Blum calls the "latitudinarians": those who, like Lincoln and Wilson, gave wide scope to the Constitution's vague charter...
Despite the fact that Liberian politics are not exactly democratic-Tub-man's True Whig Party has no effective opposition-"Uncle Shad" has never kept himself aloof from his people. He hears hundreds of petitions each week in his $6,000,000 sun-reflector-coated palace, settles even minor matters in his government, including the marital disputes of his staff. He finds time to dance a spry quadrille at soirees in the palace and is much less a stickler than he used to be about top hats and cutaways at state functions; at a dam dedication last year...