Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Turning to Dent and Chotiner, Nixon instructed them to tell each local candidate to avoid name calling and to seek maximum TV exposure. "We have the Republican vote, but that isn't enough. To win, we must get the Democratic workingman. If we get him, then we can win all the races...
...repeated and far more convincing Agnew point was that today's liberals have lost both their fire and their function and thus are no longer relevant to the workingman. He paid his respects to labor's past heroes. "The liberalism of the old elite was a venturesome and fighting philosophy-the vanguard political dogma of a Franklin Roosevelt, a Harry Truman, a John Kennedy. But you know and I know that the old fire-horses are long gone...
...saying some of the same things, but on a higher plane of rhetoric. Thus Agnew accused the Democratic Congress of "featherbedding" and "monumental goldbricking" in holding up Administration bills. He charged that it was controlled by "big spenders" and "bitter men" who have "forfeited their mandate" to represent the workingman. Nixon issued a 20-page "call for cooperation" from the Congress, gently chiding the Hill for its failure to act on his programs. The watchword of his Administration, he insisted, was still "reform." "In a mood of nostalgia and partisanship," he said, "Congress has too much devoted its energies...
...sensitive to the needs of the impoverished. Well, we believe in representing the poor too, and we do. But the time has come for someone also to represent the workingmen of this country, the Forgotten Man of American politics. The President and I are applying for that job. The workingman has become the cornerstone of the New Majority...
...live from and their lyrics of yet express no class-consciousness. It took the Kent State massacre to bring Neil Young down from his "Helpless, helpless, helpless" ness into the high-energy world of "Four Dead In Ohio." The title of The Dead's new album is somewhat deceptive-"Workingman's Dead" is neither the Marxian manifesto set to music nor the high-energy level music produced by the fists of labor (Dead fans will be glad to know that Garcia is alive and well, sunk in country funk...