Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dictabelt, Nixon placed much of the blame for the whole Watergate imbroglio on Charles Colson, who had recently resigned as White House special counsel. "Apparently what happened is that Colson, with Liddy and Hunt in his office, called Magruder and told him in February to get off his ass and start doing something about, uh, setting up some kind of an operation . . . Colson was always pushing terribly hard for action, and in this instance, uh, pushed so hard that, uh, Liddy et al following their natural inclinations, uh, went, uh, the extra step which got them into serious trouble...
Arcand said that the Barkan Construction Company, contractor for Canaday Hall, the new dormitory under construction in the North Yard, was to blame for the coupling's breaking. He said Barkan's insurance would pay for the damages...
Parkhurst holds the media largely to blame for the failure of the May shutdown, though he attributes it to other factors as well. Press coverage was limited, he says, because "there was no violence, or very little violence. There were no blockades, there was nothing for the press to look at. If you don't have something dramatic to focus a camera lens on, then nothing's going to happen...
...pursued the CIA connection more diligently than Senator Howard H. Baker Jr., vice chairman of the Senate Watergate committee. Indeed, he has been criticized for attempting to divert blame from the White House. Last week, after nine months' research, he finally released his long-awaited report. While it raised disconcerting questions about CIA participation, it provided no evidence that the agency either planned or executed the Watergate operation. If anything, the agency was apparently a victim of White House machinations...
...important man, her home is luxurious and her daughter (by a teenage romance) is intelligent and sympathetic. Despite the rewards of her position, Audran remains an unfulfilled woman; passion is lacking from her life, and, according to the logic of the film, that is the crucial element. The blame for her suffering is placed, rightly enough, on her husband, one of those soulless all-business types who possesses little talent for either love...