Word: candidness
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...doctrine of executive privilege has historically been a bitter issue. Many Presidents-including George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower-have argued that a Chief Executive must accord his advisers the full freedom to offer their candid counsel without being forced to tell Congress or the nation's newspapers what it was. Yet the doctrine has sometimes been invoked to conceal bumbling, or political pressures, to suppress valid arguments against the decisions a President finally makes, or to hide outright corruption within an Administration...
...news was worth $90,000 in cash and invaluable prestige in his profession. But Sutherland, a physician turned researcher who is more at home in a trout stream than an ivory tower, received the tidings with candid nonchalance. He made unassuming remarks about the award being "terrific" and "an honor and a pleasure." Then he observed: "I've known that I've been under consideration for a long time. My friends were saying, 'Maybe this year or maybe next year...
...price rules. He has given that job to Connally, who will now have a vastly expanded stage on which to play his roles of charmer and back-room arm twister. Connally has plunged into the task with gusto. At a televised press conference last Friday, he was incisive, seemingly candid, pleasant and shrewdly disarming enough to give Spiro Agnew still more reason to fear for his spot on the Republican ticket next year...
...historic attitudes about the frailty of women and their need for special treatment under the law have usually prevented serious consideration of any of the proposals. The Women's Liberation movement now makes it an idea whose time has come-at least for a full and candid hearing. Last week the Yale Law Journal devoted the bulk of its new issue to an article that not only offers convincing arguments for passage of the latest version of the amendment but also attempts to predict just what the measure would mean in practice...
Hatfield made it clear that the war in Southeast Asia was for him "morally indefensible." On racism he was equally candid: "Why has the church failed so miserably?" he asked. "Why is it that one of the bastions of racial hate in this country is located firmly in the so-called Bible Belt? Why is it that the overwhelming majority of evangelical churches are still segregated both in spirit and in fact?" Defending governmental intervention to aid the poor, Hatfield asserted, "the evangelical conscience takes its authority not from John Locke's concept of property or William Buckley...