Word: stewardship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making such nominations, the President carries out a stewardship entrusted to him by the Constitution. Implicit in that stewardship are certain widely accepted criteria of eligibility for the office of Supreme Court Justice. These include, we believe, a rich experience and distinguished performance in the realm of law, and qualities of mind and spirit promising a wise and fair search for the legal merits of cases undistorted by partisan, personal, or regional bias...
...Commerce Department reached its point of greatest influence during the Hoover presidency, when Secretary Robert Lamont actively helped make U.S. economic and foreign trade policy. Since then, those functions have been largely transferred to the State Department and the Council of Economic Advisers. Under Stans' stewardship, at least part of the department's remaining business constituency has drifted away. Black businessmen, who received promises of major aid during Nixon's campaign, distrust Stans' blunt conservatism; at the N.A.A.C.P. convention last month, he was roundly jeered. Big businessmen who want to get something done in Washington bypass...
...White House, they see the cooling as the result of two years of Richard Nixon's special kind of managerial stewardship. The people who run this Administration are less frenetic, they say. So the people who are touched by it are calmer. It is the absence of a Washington spectacle like Lyndon Johnson, the refusal to make great promises that cannot be fulfilled. Hopes and desires have diminished and are now more in line with reality. There is in this era of quietude, the Nixon thinkers contend, a grudging growth of belief in the President's pledges...
Rivers' goals were never ambiguous. Throughout his political life, he devoted himself to the problems and promotion of the U.S. military. During his stewardship of the House Armed Services Committee, he was an unabashed militarist; nowhere in Congress in recent years have the military services had a more dogged and effective tribune. As a result, Rivers held, at least according to his own reckoning, "the most powerful position in the U.S. Congress...
...been without the G.M. strike. The Commerce Department, for example, calculates that real G.N.P. would have risen at an annual rate of 2.5% in the third quarter if the strike had not hit. But that point is not especially relevant to an assessment of the Administration's economic stewardship. Nixon's economists have always assumed that bitter strikes would be an inevitable part of their "game plan" for checking inflation, and they have vigorously rejected suggestions for policies, such as wage-price guidelines,* aimed at heading off labor warfare...