Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compel Secretary of State Dean Rusk to testify, but Gore would rather not use that sort of pressure. He is confident that the complexity of world problems and the force of public opinion will lead future Administrations to seek the Senate's advice, if only to share the blame for their policies...
Some barbers, like Salvatore Gidari of the University Barber shop, blame the style on protest action against the war. But the protest has hit the barbers more than the country's politics. "Believe me," Gidari said, "I'm a barber, I didn't start this war. We'd like to see it end just as quickly as anyone else...
...result from "white rac ism" was widely disputed. California Governor Ronald Reagan charged that the commission "failed to recognize the efforts that have been made by millions of right-thinking people in this country." Richard Nixon and others zeroed in on the commission's failure to place heavy blame on the rioters themselves. "I think," said Nixon, "the commission has put undue emphasis on the idea that we are in effect a racist society." Vice President Hubert Humphrey also had some doubts about the commission's conclusion that the U.S. was moving toward a form of apartheid...
Conspiracies. His talk was also tough, if somewhat more tempered, on civil disorders. Both directly and by implication, he disputed the President's riot-commission findings. "A major deficiency" of the report, he said, is its "tendency to lay the blame for the riots on everyone except the rioters." Disputing the commission's attempt to debunk the notion that riots are planned by extremists, Nixon in a radio-network speech alluded to conspiracies to ignite next summer. Only a combination of efforts can avert racial upheavals, Nixon said, and he attributed equal importance to bringing "the American dream...
...Serf-Defense Force who had been called upon last week to answer charges that one of his subordinates passed secrets to Hughes Aircraft Co. to help it bid for defense contracts; by his own hand (an overdose of sleeping pills); in Tokyo. "I am solely to blame for everything," he wrote. "I will apologize by killing myself...