Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know many fair-minded people believe that my motivations and actions in the Watergate affair were intentionally self-serving and illegal. I now understand how my own mistakes and misjudgments have contributed to that belief and seemed to support it. This burden is the heaviest one of all to bear. That the way I tried to deal with Watergate was the wrong way is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me." After this statement, Nixon's aides withdrew behind the wall of silence that has surrounded San Clemente for weeks. Nixon...
...German wit L. A. Feuerbach observed, is what he eats. The culinary tastes of Presidents may bear out that maxim. Under Dwight Eisenhower, a state dinner, served with military precision, might feature such Army-wife specialties as Mamie's cherished Chicken Jewel Salad Ring, a cloying confection that included cranberries, celery and almonds, epoxied with gelatin. During the Kennedy Administration, the sumptuary menus seemed intended to rate a star or two from Michelin. Lyndon Johnson introduced Texas ranch-house-chili cuisine to the White House...
Such settlements seemed to bear out the prediction of New York City Teacher Leader Albert Shanker that "the number of strikes will be small this year." Explains Shanker, who won the presidency of the 425,000-member American Federation of Teachers in a union election last month: "There is a general state of depression in which teachers are also caught. In this situation, they are willing to settle for less...
...Analyst Raymond F. DeVoe of Spencer Trask & Co. figures that share prices, adjusted for changes in the dollar's purchasing power, dropped 86% during the 1929-32 collapse (consumer prices were falling then, along with stocks). Between the end of 1968 (from which many traders date the present bear market) and last month, he calculates, the price of an average share traded on the New York Stock Exchange, adjusted on the same basis, fell...
...will soon be leaving his $30,000-a-year job as a White House speechwriter and maybe even his flat in the Watergate complex. But unlike Rabbi Baruch M. Korff, who has vowed to campaign "for those [anti-Nixon] leftists and liberals to go to hell," McLaughlin seems to bear no grudges. In an interview last week, he admitted to feeling "rage, desolation and the bends" as the former President's case collapsed. But he also welcomed the sense of "excitement and peace" that followed the resignation. Why had he kept his silence during Nixon's last days...