Word: candidness
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...place behind closed doors. The exception, of course, was his hour-long televised press conference with the Associated Press Managing Editors in Florida's Disney World (TIME, Nov. 26). While carried off with panache and an almost hectic energy, that performance at many points was something less than candid. In fact, on closer examination, the list of some of the distortions, innuendoes and false assumptions by the President is astonishing...
Shifting from large dinners in the State Dining Room to cozy cocktail sessions in the upstairs solarium, the sessions were brutally candid at times. Some participants felt painfully uncomfortable listening to the President pleading, although not contritely, for understanding. Called on to give his views, Republican Senator Barry Goldwater pulled no punches. "The only time you have us down here," he complained to Nixon, "is when you get your ass in a crack and want us to get it out for you." As others laughed nervously at Goldwater's coarse language, Nixon stared stonily, obviously irked at the remark...
...return for his candid approach to the great issues of the day, Agnew has been mocked, falsely accused and publicly humiliated. He has been unfairly tried by a kangaroo court, the jury being the press. And his own Government has turned on him as a scapegoat for others' misdeeds...
...what we had to do," said a Moscow editor last week, in perhaps an unintentionally candid characterization of the Soviet Union's recent actions in the Middle East. It was also something of an understatement. The U.S.S.R. had acted far more forcefully to try to ensure victory for its Arab clients than the U.S. had reacted to help Israel...
...manner is brisk and candid. Her taste in clothes runs to blazers and tweed skirts with knee socks and "sensible" shoes. A sturdy, affable spinster of 59, Dixy Lee Ray lives in an 8-ft.-by-28-ft. motor home that belies her $42,500-a-year salary. She parks it somewhere in rural Virginia-commuting to work by chauffeured limousine-but she keeps its exact location a secret; she has been forced to move once because of county ordinances against trailers. Wherever she goes, her miniature poodle and huge, shaggy Scottish deerhound go too. They have welcomed, and startled...