Word: blackmailed
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...speech, Nixon said: "I returned several times to the immediate problem posed by Mr. Hunt's blackmail threat, which to me was not a Watergate problem but one which I regarded, rightly or wrongly, as a potential national security problem of very serious proportions...
That same night, according to a Watergate grand jury, Hunt was given $75,000, and in the subsequent discussions in the White House all anxiety about Hunt's blackmail vanished. The subject did not come up again until much later, when the cover-up was collapsing...
...personally was in favor of prosecuting The Post, he continued, and conviction would force us to get rid of our broadcast properties. This conversation was duly reported to the editors by Clawson, and it sounded then--as now--a little like blackmail...
...meetings, both sides pledged to pursue "the established policy aimed at making the process of improving Soviet-American relations irreversible." Nevertheless, before his departure, Kissinger also used one exchange of lunchtime felicities to issue a careful warning: "If we attempt to take advantage of each other, attempt to blackmail each other or deal with each other from a strong position, there can be no peace. We can bring about lasting peace if we deal with each other cooperatively and recognize that neither can gain a permanent strategic advantage, either militarily or politically, anywhere." As Kissinger likes to stress...
...this is not standard bad news enough, Heilbroner has a few private premonitions to share. For instance, when the underdeveloped nations get nuclear weapons ("within the next few decades and perhaps much sooner"), he anticipates that they will blackmail the developed nations into "a massive transfer of wealth" - or else...