Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pathetic thing to watch, but there apparently is some internal mechanism within Nixon that will not allow him to perceive reality. The Watergate record is a sequence of similar bad judgments. It was only a "third-rate burglary." Tell the people nobody in the White House was involved. Blame it on the CIA and national security. That will stop it. The American people will soon tire of the whole affair. Sam Ervin's committee won't last long. Nobody can really understand the complexities of the case. The House will never impeach. The Senate will never convict...
Theirs is the kind of male mentality that is incapable of understanding any man who is not fond of violence. Despite a tendency to blame the emotional problems of American youth on "Mom," these men exert relentless efforts to make their sons "real men." If you want to be brave in their eyes, and no boy wants to be a "chicken" to his father, you must oppose violence only if it springs from minority frustrations and admire it at all other times...
...could blame the Dodgers last week if they had a frightening sense of déjà vu. Just a year after they had fallen apart in the second half of the sea son, the Dodgers seemed ready for a repeat performance. Their 10½-game lead earlier this year had dwindled to a margin of 2½, and they still had six games with the surging Reds...
...power not only to oversee parks but also to build parkways and take land by eminent domain. Moses crushed opposition, polarized issues, bamboozled the state government into giving him money, spent it to start vast public projects, then blackmailed the legislature into giving him more cash by threatening to blame it for leaving the job uncompleted...
...will be as candid and as forthright as I possibly can," he promised. "I will expect any individuals in my Administration to be exactly the same. There will be no tightly controlled operation of the White House staff." He firmly added: "I will make the decisions and take the blame for them or whatever benefit might be the case...