Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colson's monstrous plot, however, can scarcely be constructed from such shards. Why, then, did he unburden himself to Bast? One theory is that Colson wanted to make a last desperate try to get himself (and the President) off the hook. So why not blame Watergate on the CIA, which is already highly suspect to much of the public and in no position to defend itself. If this was indeed the scheme, then considering how battered American institutions are and how in need of support and not defamation, it was one of the dirtiest tricks that Colson has played...
There is no more pugnacious Watergate warrior than Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who insists that Nixon has only himself to blame for his troubles. Yet Bradlee owns that the press is emerging from the scandal with a "black eye." The volume and complexity of the material, he says, have "made public digestion impossible." He also feels that newsmen generally
...altogether clear who is to blame for Harvard's poor showing in the equal opportunity employment field. Leonard claims, with some substantiation, that there is significant resistance in the individual departments to affirmative action. If that is indeed the case, then it is incumbent on Bok to exercise some moral leadership and turn the tide around. This is, as much as anything else, a question of morality and of a commitment to social equality. In an institution where liberal principle are preached so freely, there has been a dismal failure of its leaders to face up to their moral obligations...
...nomination of Earl J. Silbert to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. He was a member of the original Justice Department team that investigated the Watergate breakin, and the Senators were far from happy with its performance. But Ervin made it clear that he felt the blame for the original investigation's failure should rest primarily on Petersen and Richard Kleindienst, who was Attorney General at the time...
...NATO is weaker than it was ten or 20 years ago-and it almost certainly is-the blame does not rest so much with détente as it does with changing times. The erosion can be attributed, in part, to the Viet Nam War and Washington's turning away from Europe to Asia. It can also be partly traced to the obstructionism of France and Charles de Gaulle's decision to kick NATO troops off French soil in the mid-'60s. But NATO is far from moribund. Coming after the squabbling within the alliance last winter, the Ottawa meeting...