Word: unconcerned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fear, the emotion that stiffens and inhibits the minds of most men, causing them to be totally incapable of acting in their defense at the moment of trial, is totally lacking in me. I could look upon my total ruin with as detached an unconcern as I look upon theirs. The payment for life is death...
...Nixon's display of Olympian unconcern a wise course? To some, it seemed that the President was once again showing an unwillingness to follow through on major decisions. Through his presidency, they argued, Nixon has sounded the trumpet on one program after another?welfare reform, the governmental reorganization of his "New American Revolution," revenue sharing?and then lost interest in making them work. To engineer a turnaround of the U.S. economy, his critics charge, Nixon must forsake the security of the television screen and reassure doubters in person...
...barometer of far-right thinking, pointed to years of backing Nixon candidacies, but added: "We fear that the President is not only advocating policies at almost total variance with conservative sentiment on the domestic front, but his 'generation of peace' diplomacy, coupled with his seeming unconcern about our rapidly deteriorating military posture, is literally endangering the survival of the American Republic." - William Loeb, ultraconservative publisher of the Manchester, N.H.. Union Leader, reminisced about the old Nixon, then washed his hands of the new: "The publisher and Mrs. Loeb are very fond of the President and Mrs. Nixon...
Daniel Ellsberg, research associate at the Center for international Studies at M. I. T. and former Vietnam consultant to presidential advisor Henry Kissinger '50 decried the "criminality" of intervention in Laos. He accused the American people of "widespread unconcern of people over the war" and corresponding unwillingness to support criminal charges against U.S. officials. He referred to the success of the Moratoria of 1969 and 1970, when "the emphasis was on the costs of the war, rather than its criminality...