Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Despite his cool relationship with Congress, Richard Nixon offset his switchboard's tactlessness by going to the Hill for lunch on the final day. He gave the key leaders cuff links bearing the Presidential seal plus pearl-ringed brooches for their wives. He offered general thanks, said nothing of...
Stick in the Mud. The net impact of the first half of the 91st Congress was so ambiguous that politicians could readily tag it in any way that served their purposes. Democrat Mansfield called the performance "responsible and respectable." House Republican Leader Gerald Ford termed it a "dolittle Congress, a...
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> THE WAR. As President Nixon pursued his policy of U.S. troop withdrawals and Vietnamization, the war issue was muted. He secured from the House a resolution that seemed to support his policy. He won a lottery draft system-which an earlier Congress had refused to give President Johnson-and this...
> THE SOUTH AND CIVIL RIGHTS. The President's losing fight on the nomination of South Carolina Judge Clement Haynsworth to the Supreme Court was a clear warning that he cannot expect help from moderate and liberal Republicans on any strategy, "Southern" or otherwise, that might offend their own constituents...