Word: blackmailer
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...National Guard to clean up the mess. Mindful of the disasters that used to occur when Standard Oil employed strike breakers, Rockefeller refused. Ignoring Lindsay, he sat down with the union and worked out a settlement. Lindsay denounced him for "cowardice ... capitulation to extortionist demands ... giving in to blackmail." Though Rockefeller had done what was necessary, Lindsay managed to emerge as the victor in the public image contest. From then on, the two Republicans quarreled frequently and contumaciously...
...bondholders, to make him vulnerable. And the Rockefellers were only able to depose him because, in the course of putting together the 1965-6 New York City World's Fair, he had lost the support of public opinion and the press, which for forty years had allowed him to blackmail public officials by simply threatening to resign...
...Howard Hunt's demands for money in the celebrated March 21, 1973, White House conversation, Hogan protested: "The President didn't, in righteous indignation, rise up and say, 'Get out of here. You are in the office of the President of the United States. How can you talk about blackmail and bribery and keeping witnesses silent?' . . . And then throw them out of his office and pick up the phone and call the Department of Justice and tell them there is obstruction of justice going on. But my President didn't do that. He sat there, and he worked and worked...
Heilbroner also poses the following scenario: Major developing nations will get hold of nuclear bombs and use nuclear blackmail as a means of redistribution. He cleverly refers to the Arab oil embargo as a more peaceful manifestation of this phenomenon. But even without nuclear threat, and "wars of redistribution," limited wars are certainly assured to continue...
...Hunt," said the President, "needed a hundred and-thousand [sic] dollars or so to pay his lawyer and handle other things or he was going to have some things to say that would be very detrimental to Colson and Ehrlichman, et al. This is, uh, Dean recognizes as pure blackmail...