Word: calley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Calley...
...early nomination for TIME's Man of the Year is Lieut. William Calley, scapegoat of a war we don't know what to do with. What a laugh: convicted of premeditated murder [April 12]. All of us who called for those bomb-bay doors to be opened while serving in World War II knew we were going to kill civilians as well as military. And what about Hiroshima...
...America's collective conscience can now rest peacefully, knowing that we have justly incarcerated the man responsible for all the war crimes committed by the allies in Southeast Asia. With Lieut. Calley behind bars, our mission of good will in Southeast Asia will be able to proceed without the recurrence of any American-initiated atrocities...
...course of the interview, the President spoke of his recent intervention in the Calley case, and of criticism directed toward FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover...
Nixon told the panel that his intervention in the Calley case was consistent with American military justice and that it had calmed public fears by assuring a fair final review of Calley's murder conviction...