Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, a feeling that the President's associates are to blame for his troubles rather than Nixon himself. More than half (59%) of the President's supporters agree that the transcripts reveal "a small group of sleazy operators who put their own interests ahead of the country...
...WATERGATE HAPPEN? Nixon put the blame on himself for not supervising his 1972 campaign with the care he usually devoted to elections. But when Kilpatrick suggested that Nixon may have been "betrayed" by his aides, the President raised his voice in anger: "I'm not going to indulge in a conversation with you or anybody else condemning men who have given very great service to this country." Nixon recalled how painful it had been for him to ask for the resignations of H.R. Haldeman, the White House chief of staff, and John Ehrlichman, the President's top domestic...
SCAPEGOATS. One result of the embargo has been a search for villains. The Federal Government has been accused of bureaucratic bungling, and environmentalists of obstructionism. But by far the most blame has been heaped on the oil companies, largely because of their record profits. Urbanologist Irving Kristol of New York University noted one reason: the corporation "is just about the only institution in American society without a constituency. Most institutions have someone who will rally around them when they get into trouble. Corporations have not." Even most of the companies' stockholders are uninterested, Kristol said. "They are speculators. They...
...please do not blame...
After graduating in 1957 from Wheaton (Ill.) College and being ordained by the conservative, independent La Grange Bible Church, Gothard worked with teen-agers in suburban churches as well as youth gangs in Chicago. Both groups were similarly disturbed, he decided, and their family life was to blame. To counteract their personal problems, he developed a set of absolute "principles," like his theory about God's chain of command...