Word: letdowns
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...paused, then continued: "You'd think I'd be elated . . . Well, you're so drained emotionally at the end, you can't feel much. You'd think that just when the time comes you'd have your greatest day. But there is this letdown...
...Nixon perceives the presidency, as well as his whole career, that letdown must never be allowed to prevail. There must always be a new challenge; it is all a constant battle. "I believe in the battle," he said in the interview, "whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle. It's always there wherever you go. I, perhaps, carry it more than others because that...
...letter, of constitutional checks and balances-and through his appointive power Nixon may soon have a compliant Supreme Court that could render the Judicial Branch ineffective too. His actions also suggest a personal insecurity, a potentially divisive need to create or magnify enemies so as to avoid his feared letdown...
...strain showed. More than anyone else, the airmen wanted to believe that peace was indeed at hand. "The letdown was just killing," said Captain James H.S. Train, a veteran of more than 200 missions who is now on his sixth combat tour. "We're just hanging on by our fingernails." Later another flyer warned: "Just don't pass out any more peace rumors...
Psychologically, at least, the Crimson will be looking past the Big Green to its crucial confrontation with the Quakers and is in a somewhat vulnerable position. A letdown following a highly-charged game with the Big Red is not out of the question, and Dartmouth, while bringing to Cambridge only a mediocre 3-3-1 record, is a competent Ivy team...