Word: candidates
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...talking about a lot of people, and those are people I care about. And they are people I have invested a lot of time in," he said. "I think it's an honest, good, candid negotiation. We know what the wages are, we know what the situation with the university's finances are, and we can make an honest judgment about that, I think," he said...
...interviews last week, the new leaders stressed candid discussion among different racial and cultural groups on campus to cultivate good relations...
Never has there been a politician so candid about his own mendacity as Earl Long, the fabled drinking, carousing and hog-hunting 1950s Governor of Louisiana (hint: Paul Newman played him in Blaze). After one election, Long went back on a campaign promise in a big way. When a delegation of betrayed supporters showed up in Baton Rouge to protest, the Governor refused to see them. "What will I tell them?" asked a desperate aide. Long's immortal response: "Tell them I lied...
...While candid about his opposition to the Vietnam War, Clinton has also insisted he never received special treatment. So when the story broke Monday, he appeared momentarily rattled. Initially, he said "everyone involved" in the account is now dead, which is inaccurate. Then he alternately denied the import of the piece and maintained that he had already explained his behavior fully. Until Friday, his aides claimed Clinton was and is unaware of his uncle's activities -- whatever they might have been. But then came a report in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette quoting a retired naval reserve officer, Trice Ellis...
...trustiest ally is her husband, who functions as a candid and unsparing critic. "There are times when he tells me what I really don't want to know," she says with a laugh. Perhaps more important, he sees himself frankly as a role model for other men. "I have no problem about appearing with Mary and supporting her," he says. "She is the one of us who holds office...