Word: reston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Times called on Congress to "curb and control" the Executive Branch: "Nixon is pushing the country very near to a constitutional crisis; Congress can yet save the President from himself and the nation from disaster." But the Times's vice president and star columnist, James Reston, pointed out that Nixon's "new and more specific peace terms may be overlooked and underestimated" in all the rhetoric. "There is nothing here about keeping American air and naval power in Viet Nam, or defending the Thieu government...
...knowledgeable political columnists has been that Senator George McGovern probably won't win the Democratic nomination for President because he is unacceptable to the big city and labor leaders who form the nucleus of traditional Democratic party power. Columnists like Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Stewart Alsop, and James Reston have consistently passed along the information that Democratic powers like Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and AFL-CIO President George Meany cannot support McGovern's candidacy. They have, however, rarely been able to quote sources to back up their claims...
...presidential policy statement might in fact have helped to clear things up for the columnists, who could not seem to agree on what to make of the re-escalation. Where Joseph Kraft had Nixon "courting confrontation" with Moscow, James Reston spoke of a "temporary expression of presidential frustration and anger rather than a calculated plan to force a showdown." Victor Zorza, the London-based Kremlinologist, saw the bombing strategy as "a deep game designed to exploit the differences between the hawks and the doves in the Kremlin in order to maneuver Moscow into bringing about a peace settlement in Viet...
...diffident", McCarthy declares that if he does not win, he will "send hordes of greasy youngsters out to attack the system." However, Morris Abram Jr., president of Greasy Youngsters for Meaningless Platitudes, says he will "only support a candidate whose positions are in the best interest of mankind." James Reston editorializes, following an exclusive four-hour interview and acupuncture session with Abram, "Youth Today forces all of us to aspire to the highest standard...
...spokesman for some dean or other indicated that the University might not press charges unless it felt called upon to do so or Scotty Reston ran an angry column in the Times...