THE months after the 1970 mid-term elections have been a period of quiet and sometimes uncomfortable reassessment in the White House. Some of the conclusions that Richard Nixon has reached will be implicit in his State of the Union message this week. As Nixon embarks on the third year of his presidency, the speech will present his design for the fundamental domestic programs on which he must stake his Administration's future success and, to a considerable degree, his own hopes for reelection. One ranking aide predicted new proposals "that have not even been...
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