Word: cronyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson's. Nixon won the election partly because he was so successful in the use of cosmetics and electronics. In power he intended to pursue the same course. Johnson was loud, Nixon would be soft. Johnson was secretive and deceptive, Nixon open and candid. Johnson played cronyism while Nixon would seek counsel from friend and foe. Johnson became the symbol of a political manipulator, but Nixon would abandon his old style of partisanship to strike a pose as statesman of all the people. The script said in large letters: AVOID LYNDON JOHNSON'S MISTAKES...
Unlike the ill-fated Fortas, who immediately ran into trouble when President Johnson nominated him for the spot last year, Burger should have no difficulty winning Senate confirmation. He is not subject to the charge of cronyism, and Nixon is at the beginning rather than the end of his presidency. While Burger has known Nixon for 21 years, he has seen the President only three times in the past 13 years?the third time only three minutes before they walked into the East Room last week. While he is generally of the conservative school, he is moderate enough, particularly...
...Administration deftly solved the quandary. First, the White House conceded that a study of the Johnson decision had turned up "no evidence of impropriety." On scrupulously economic grounds, the Nixon formula nevertheless sharply pared Johnson's largesse and excised entirely those awards that had fed the cries of cronyism...
...shortcomings on its effusive, arm-waving chairman, Paul Rand Dixon, 55, a onetime aide to the late Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. It called for the chairman to "resign from the agency that he has so degraded and ossified." Among other things, it accused him of "cronyism"-of nearly 500 FTC lawyers, it says, only 40 are Republicans-and until recently of dunning employees to raise funds for the Democratic Party. To ensure staff loyalty, said the report, Dixon ignores "alcoholism, spectacular lassitude and incompetence by the most modest standards." At one point, two team members found...
...Cronyism" is widespread in the agency. Partisan politics is the main determinant of who gets what positions...