Word: bungler
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...James W. McCord Jr., the conspirator who first started spilling the story of high officials' involvement, Hunt now portrays him as a bungler, "an electronic hitchhiker who shouldn't have been allowed on our operation...
...Nixon resign. "Looking at it from a perfectly coldblooded, hardheaded standpoint," Loeb wrote, "Mr. Nixon has destroyed his credibility and his support, not just with the left wing, but with the average American. They have no confidence in his ability or his skill. They see him as a discredited bungler...
Placating the Whites. The people of Chicago have never heard his honor treated so roughly. "Daley the builder?" queries Friedman. "No, Daley the destroyer. Daley the manager? No, Daley the bungler." From storefront to street corner, he declares in his low-key voice: "We're going to sweep that aging, corrupt, manipulating politician out of city hall...
...always wins, proving that even in an age of constricting specialization a man can do almost anything he sets his mind to, if only for a moment. It is Plimpton's triumph that he has restored the word amateur-which today is so often a synonym for bungler-to its original and true connotation: someone who takes up an art or craft not for gain but for love...
...falls alarmingly short of the ideal. By design or sheer ineptitude, the issues of Viet Nam, urban reconstruction and racial reconciliation are being clouded rather than clarified. The times call for a high order of statesmanship; yet Nixon comes on like an artful dodger and Humphrey like an artless bungler. Whether the two can shake off those images in the seven weeks before Election Day is becoming the key question of a disappointing campaign...