Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon insisted that he had neither authorized nor known about offers of Executive clemency to persuade the Watergate burglars to plead guilty and remain silent. He also insisted that he had made no attempt to get the CIA to take the blame for the Watergate operation? and had authorized no one else to do so. He denied authorizing or encouraging "subordinates to engage in il legal or improper campaign tactics." Curiously, he did not say whether he had been aware of such activities...
...extent that I may in any way have contributed to the climate in which they took place, I did not intend to; to the extent that I failed to prevent them, I should have been more vigilant." That is the closest Nixon has yet come to accepting personal blame for the Watergate crimes, and it is pretty close indeed. His careful use of the word "specific" could imply that he might have approved of such activities in general...
...that he "looked to" Ehrlichman for supervision, Nixon seems to exonerate himself from blame for the subsequent crimes of the plumbers. He also prepares a defense for Ehrlichman, who can agree that he was acting under presidential orders...
This seems to blame Krogh, rather than Ehrlichman, for the burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. The job was managed by E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy under Krogh's direction. At the same time, Nixon seems to excuse Krogh for an overreaction. But would a President who had approved bag jobs before really disapprove of this...
...rail crews from working more than twelve hours a day even with overtime) that prevent the most efficient use of cars. A consortium of railroaders, union leaders, elevator operators and farm economists who met at the Grain Movement '73 Conference in Chicago last week placed most of the blame for the jam on the Federal Government for overloading the rails with the Russian grain. They think new laws are needed to modernize and better coordinate the interlocking parts of the transportation system. But the remedies, even if adopted, will come far too late to unsnarl the present...