Word: candidated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union, we are shocked at the off-handed manner in which he suggests to other union officials that they take over an illegal numbers game conducted in the factory in order to fill the union's coffers. The scenes of each passing year chronicle increasing corruption with a similar candid brutality which, while seeming wholly characteristic, never fails to exasperate and anger...
...many Republican politicians are put off by a quality that comes across variously as insincerity, awkwardness, lack of genuine warmth. It would be disingenuous to argue that a certain visceral dislike did not color the professional attitudes of many newsmen. Seymour Hersh is more vehement (and perhaps more candid) than most: "I can't stand him. I hate Nixon. I don't like any man who doesn't pay his taxes and who blames associates for everything...
Having to testify, he said, would hinder his ability to give "candid and uninhibited" advice to Nixon in private. So the committee postponed the hearings, to the disappointment of members who had hoped to ask Rush what led the President to predict recently a late-1974 pickup in national production and a downturn in inflation...
That tense press conference exchange last week underscored a persistent problem for the Secretary. He is undamaged by the main Watergate scandals, but his credibility has been nicked nonetheless. The reason: he has appeared to be less than candid about his role hi the White House efforts to plug leaks of national security secrets to the press. They included FBI wiretaps from 1969 to 1971 of four reporters and 13 government officials, as well as the formation of the special White House unit known as the plumbers...
Nixon's unprecedentedly lavish use of the claim of Executive privilege -based on the theory that he can only get candid advice from aides if he keeps their conversations with him confidential-is at the core of his defense. Obviously, if the Supreme Court rules that Nixon's claim of Executive privilege to protect his tapes is not valid in the criminal case of his former associates, it would have no validity at all in the transcending circumstances of impeachment...