Word: cowboying
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...arrival of Gerald Ford at a weekend party for journalists in Washington set off more than the usual hubbub. The President, with a bravely smiling Betty Ford at his side, was all tricked out like a cocktail cowboy in a snazzy Western-style shirt suit of blue-gray flannel decorated with white saddle stitching. For some guests, Jerry Ford's new garb, a gift from friends, brought to mind his past uncertain flights of fashion. Greeting Japan's Emperor Hirohito last year on a grand tour of Asia, for example, the President was dressed in a cutaway-with...
...Sale argues, Nixon went too far, extending the powers of his presidency in order to implement his program of cowboy reforms and antagonizing important yankee interests in the process. He attempted to turn the clock back to the pre-FDR era by making sizable cutbacks in welfare allocations, sometimes even impounding funds to prevent the implementation of congressional actions. The Establishment thought these minimal forms of income redistribution were necessary to preserve social order, Sale argues, while Nixon preferred to "guarantee domestic tranquility" through overtly repressive means. The expansion of FBI domestic surveillance, abuse of the Internal Revenue Service...
...account for them. He lumps together George Wallace, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Lloyd Bentsen, Fred Harris, and Morris Udall as representative of the new breed of Rimster politicians. But later on he notes that in 1974 Udall pushed a land-use bill restricting real estate developers--very much an anti-cowboy measure. Sale also fails to give an adequate description of the structure of Eastern Establishment interests, nor does he consider the ways in which the interests of yankees and cowboys may become intertwined...
...crowd cheered at every opportunity, until Ned Martin had only one player left to introduce. "The space cowboy from California...," Martin said, and the plaza rocked with applause...
...swear on my mother, I always said it. I have never understood why the Americans have fallen in love with that interview. I haven't given any importance to the boutade [whim] he said about the cowboy. I thought it was cute, it was arrogant, it portrayed him. But the interview was bad because Kissinger is a very cold man, and he behaved coldly. I was disturbed by his way of receiving...