Word: recommitment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...supporters, however. Besides Nixon's statement, the White House released endorsements of the nominee by eleven of his fellow judges-a measure of questionable value, considering that another seven of Carswell's colleagues refused to back him. In an attempt to head off the vote to recommit the nomination to the Judiciary Committee, an action that would ordinarily mean the death of the Carswell nomination, a majority of the committee signed a letter saying that "no useful purpose" would be served by recommittal-and implying that they would simply bounce the nomination back to the full Senate...
...Warnke's nightmare becomes fact, the U.S. will be faced with an unenviable choice. With its logistical base already established, it can reinforce its troops and recommit itself to another round in a war that many think has gone on too long already. Or it can evacuate all Americans and let South Viet Nam stand or fall alone. Neither alternative is reassuring to Richard Nixon, the man responsible for extricating the U.S. from its longest...