Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deceit, forced into a confession of past lies, he watched the support of his most loyal defenders collapse in a political maelstrom, driven by their bitterness over the realization that he had betrayed their trust. Yet, as throughout his self-inflicted Watergate ordeal, Nixon remained unwilling to admit, perhaps even to himself, the weight of his transgressions against truth and the Constitution. He was among the last to appreciate the futility of his lonely struggle to escape removal from office...
Both his forgetfulness and lack of appreciation of the implications were incredible. Nixon did admit, however, that "those arguing my case, as well as those
...they got him. After his 1972 triumph, when New York Times Columnist James Reston asked whether Nixon's smashing re-election would lead to reconciliation with his enemies, a White House aide replied: "The President does not want to make peace with his critics. He wants them to admit publicly that they were wrong...
Even local Sierra Club members admit that the tribe cannot survive much longer on the canyon floor. If Congress does not move soon to relieve the Havasupais' lot, they say, the tribe will simply succumb to poverty and disease...
...Jewish people in Europe. I would also be the last person to deny the existence of anti-Semitism within the Arab world and Islam (although any honest Jew who knows the story of Joshua ben Nun, who destroyed the entire city of Jericho and all its inhabitants, must also admit the existence of racism in a number of Biblical stories--including that of the Amalekites). And having lived in Israel during the war, I can testify that indeed every family is directly affected by a war, either by death or serious injury...