Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yahya got the message. When Bhutto returned from a trip to the United Nations, he was immediately invited to President's House. Bhutto later recounted that at the two-hour meeting, he told Yahya: "You have been committing one blunder after another. But even now, if you don't listen to me, I will go into the background and keep quiet." Yahya replied: "I want to swear...
Neither childish retribution, misread signs, weekend anxiety nor the absence of 32 Senators can justify such a colossal blunder...
...only logical recourse is to file a suit to halt Wallace's violation. Yet if the President forces a showdown with Wallace, he will undoubtedly alienate the white Southern voters he has courted so assiduously. No one in the White House is admitting that Nixon committed a strategic blunder, but one aide probably summed up the feeling in the Nixon camp when he said of Wallace: "What a rattlesnake...
...answered a kibbutznik's question about that disputed territory by saying: "If I were in your shoes. I would hold on." Was that a pro-Israeli statement? Did that not differ from U.S. policy? In fact, Muskie was impulsively expressing sympathy for the plight of those Israelis. Diplomatic blunder? Yes. Indecisiveness...
Nixon, meanwhile, sensing a political tunnel wave, announced that he would personally review Calley's case. The prosecutor in the Calley trial then wrote an eloquent rebuke to Nixon, criticizing his incursion into the military murder case appeal procedure. Now Democratic Party politicians are gloating over Nixon's blunder, since he will eventually (before the elections?) have to overrule either the army trial officers or his middle American constituency...