Word: blames
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eisenhower also takes the blame for his obvious errors in the Tunisian campaign, but makes out a good case for his temporary collaboration with Darlan. Not only was he bound by political directives that the French in North Africa were to be treated as neutrals, not enemies, but Robert Murphy's intelligence for the U.S. State Department on General Henri Giraud proved faulty. A great deal of effort went into prying Giraud out of Vichy territory, only to have him insist on having Ike's job or none at all. Finally Giraud changed his mind...
...Blame from a Reporter. The A.P. had tried to make things clear on election night. At midnight, A.P. Executive Editor Alan Gould had told the New York staff: "Now we must stress the fact that Truman is keeping his lead . . . until now, Dewey has been the story even where he is behind." (Why Dewey was still the story when Underdog Truman was obviously the news, Gould...
Republicans, who thought they were in the know before Nov. 2, had a variety of explanations for what hit them. Most of them seemed to add up to the fact that they, themselves, were to blame...
...Wrong Can You Get? But the humiliating fact that the press had been completely wrong on the outcome of the election could not be laughed off. Furthermore, the blame could not be brushed off on the pollsters (see below), politicos and pundits, or even on the stupidity or slyness of the voters. The blame, as a few top editors sadly admitted in their painful soul-searching after election day, lay primarily on the press itself...
While Greeks and Americans tended to blame each other for the "situation," the truth was that both were faced with a very tough military and political problem: How to destroy an enemy when his base in a "neutral" country is immune from attack...