Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McGovern dismissed demands that war crimes tribunals in the U.S. affix blame for the conflict. "This is not the time for recrimination but for reconciliation," McGovern said...
...tourists in distress find an occasional U.S. consul coldly impervious to their problems, earlier travelers are probably to blame. Years ago, when I was a fledgling vice consul in Montevideo, Uruguay, I met and deeply sympathized with an upstanding young couple, innocent victims of unforeseen disaster. No official funds being on hand, I made them a personal loan of what amounted to two weeks' salary, never doubting that it would be repaid...
...conspiracy theory of history customarily obscures such lessons as can be learned from the past. Swanberg correctly deplores the "20 years of treason" label which Republicans used to blame Democrats for the fact that the post-World War II decade did not swiftly flower into the American century. But Swanberg has done the same kind of thing himself...
...documented history of these communication last June, the Administration dried the juice out of Landau's best tidbit. Indeed, the the Administration has not been very cooperative. It is not Landau's fault that the careful research in his best chapter has become largely superfluous. Nor is he to blame for Kissingers refusal to grant him an interview Kissingers official bashfulness, however does put a heavy strain on the book. The effects are most severe in the biographical segment...
Nixon supporters contend that Nixon should not be blamed, and some charged that the Democrats had blown the whole thing far out of proportion. Says Frank Moisio, a Bridgeport, Conn., Republican: "It's a lot of malarkey; I think it's propaganda. I don't think Nixon would do a stupid thing like that -he's not that dumb." Ross Graber, a Canton, Ohio, journalist and an independent, said the President should indeed share some of the blame and responsibility for what happened. "He should know what's going on, and on something that important...