Word: blunderer
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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...
...aimed at "a good to be affected or an evil to be avoided." All sincerely believed that their policies would save lives and shorten the war. They turned out to have chosen the wrong means. That was not a crime that any court can remedy; it was a tragic blunder...