Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Making of the President 1968, White...
...that Richard Nixon necessarily dislikes sideburns, it's just that those who wear them rarely turn out to be his kind of people. Back when his staff first settled into the White House, the only man around sporting face feathers was former Kansas Congressman Bob Ellsworth, a presidential adviser who has since gone to Brussels as U.S. Ambassador to NATO. John Sears took Ellsworth's place as the sole representative of the sideburn set around the West Wing corridors, but by last fall he had lost out to Harry Dent as the White House political operative. The unsheared...
Scene: The White House, on a recent weekend. After an intermission in strategy talks about Viet Nam, President Nixon rejoins his foreign affairs adviser, Henry Kissinger. They confer...
Nixon began by imposing a gratuitous restriction on the course of the march, refusing to permit the protestors to travel up Pennsylvania. Avenue and so refusing them a symbolic exposure to the White House...
...Nixon had wanted to provoke violence he could not have planned the preliminaries more cleverly. And it is easy to see how an eruption of violence would serve Nixon's purposes. Flickering T.V. images of students bailing police a mile from the White House would drive those celebrated "middle Americans" right into the President's arms, giving him the unthinking support he begged for on November...