Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of assessing the blame equally, you, your President and his Secretary of State have resorted to the unworthy ploy of scapegoating...
...Kissinger, in fact, is more comfortable with Ford than he was with Nixon, who delighted in occasionally deflating his foreign policy adviser. Ford is straight-arrow all the way. When he finds Kissinger expendable, the Secretary will be the first to know. For the moment, the President does not blame him for the debacle in Viet Nam or the setback in the Middle East. A top aide says that Ford still believes Kissinger has "an inner sense of strategy that can put all this back together in the next year or 18 months...
Fishing is dying out as an industry in Boston because of the city's high cost of living and also because of the over-fishing all along the East Coast. Boston Fishermen blame this on the large government subsidized foreign fleets that fish as close as 12 miles to the coast, and are for a 200 mile limit...
...contender Morris Udall insisted that any attempt by President Ford to make the Vietnam war a political issue was unwise, immoral, and doomed to failure. More principled opponents of the war--Times columnist Anthony Lewis, for example--joined in insisting that the United States should concentrate not on attaching blame for past mistakes in Vietnam, but on administering future, non-political aid. In Congress, liberals spoke against military aid on humanitarian as well as pragmatic grounds--but their speeches were printed only in the Congressional Record. In more public forums, it was taken for granted that discussion of Vietnam would...
...insistence in his speech on Congress's role in bringing about the present crisis and its responsibility to provide instant aid to Saigon. Of such stuff are "Who lost China?" poisons brewed in the body politic, even if Ford, as he vowed, would not be the Republican to cast blame...