Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amazes me that people can blame the news media for Watergate. As long as there is more to be learned, only the President can be blamed for the strain on our country's health that Watergate has become. Nixon has not been willing to accept the responsibility for errors and wrongdoing within his organization. He is the one who has kept Watergate in the news...
...around some of the nation's most populous cities, they sweated and swore through long lines that backed up, sometimes for miles, from those gas stations that were still open. Confused and angry about the gas famine and the whole energy crisis, they groped around for someone to blame. Many politicians and other people had a target ready: the oil companies. Because it is a symbol of big oil, and its stations dot the country, one company stood to take more than its share of criticism. It is the company that once told drivers that it would put a tiger...
...admires Nixon for refusing to yield. In the same column, he wrote, "You can't blame a man for trying to save his honor and his life, and this is now obviously what [Nixon's] trying, and trying with some success, to do." Reston approaches the issue of impeachment with great reluctance. One can envision him sitting in front of his typewriter shuddering at the thought of what impeachment might do to the fragile presidency...
Still, the rhetoric flows in this election campaign as Heath tries to pin the blame for England's economic crisis on the miners. The theme of Heath's Conservative Party campaign is "Who runs the country, the elected government or militant trade unions?" Heath, following the lead of Nixon and Joe McCarthy, is trying to pass the whole thing off as a communist plot in hopes that the tide of public opinion will be turned against the strikers...
...partly a result of Government regulations that kept oil and gasoline prices so low that they encouraged overconsumption; the ad naturally does not mention that the oil industry's advertising, which for years exhorted customers to consume ever greater quantities of its products, is also partly to blame...