PRESIDENT NIXON'S political aides are considering a new campaign theme for 1972: "Prosperity Without War." They are ahead of events on both counts, but the gap between slogan and situation is clearly narrowing more slowly on the economic front than the military front. The recovery from "Nixon's Recession," as it is bound to be called in the election campaign, is faltering. Worse, the economy seems boxed in by conflicting pressures—slow growth, high unemployment, big deficits and continuing inflation. There appears to be little that the President can now do to help it without...
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