Word: offing
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(5 of 11) for beginning the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with the Soviet Union.
For most of the '60s, the nation was transfixed by its darker side, as if some impulse of Ahab were obsessively driving it to a suicidal reunion with an evil deep in its own nature. The astronauts reasserted the chief mate Starbuck's cool, professional sanity. Not intellect, but intelligence...
"To go forward at all," Richard Nixon said at his inauguration, "is to go forward together." Assuming office after a year of wrenching passions, Nixon enjoyed a honeymoon of lowered voices that lasted at least through the summer. Except for the farther radical fringes, antiwar dissenters wanted to allow Nixon...
He recast domestic policy, establishing a White House Council for Urban Affairs designed to give coherence and continuity to urban planning. Like many Middle Americans, Nixon reflected what would have traditionally seemed a contradictory mixture of liberal and conservative impulses. From a liberal point of view, the record of Nixon...
But Nixon counterpointed such liberal moves with a series of gestures toward the conservative instincts of his Middle American constituency. In naming U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Warren Burger to be Earl Warren's successor as Chief Justice, he began readjusting the Supreme Court's balance toward a stricter constructionism...