Word: candor
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...Establishing a new candor in relations with the Soviet Union, whose leaders vowed to bury us, and opening dialogue with China, whose millions posed a growing threat to world peace...
...investigation into the cover-up in April 1973 when Richard Kleindienst removed himself from the case because of his close ties to John Mitchell. Petersen's gravel-voiced testimony before the Ervin committee last summer was considered by many to be a virtuoso display of candor and integrity. The transcripts, however, reveal that Petersen was callously manipulated by the President, who even went so far as to boast to Ehrlichman and Ziegler, "I've got Petersen on a short leash...
...months in Washington; Shultz spirited him away from a Wall Street bond-trading career that had made him a millionaire to take the No. 2 job at Treasury in December 1972. In that post, and later as energy czar, the 46-year-old Simon acquired a reputation for candor, accessibility to the press and to Congress, and a fierce independence. He has clashed publicly with other top Administration officials, and even found himself at odds with the President last winter when Simon ridiculed some energy-crisis observations by the Shah of Iran, whom Nixon immediately defended. A demon...
...common-sense question intrudes: Would Nixon speak in total candor, knowing that his words were being preserved on tape? There is every indication that he did. Some investigators who have heard many of the tapes have said that they were appalled by the degrading conversation-talk that they did not expect to hear at a presidential level. "I wish I had not heard it," sighed one listener. Part of the offensiveness lies in Nixon's well-known private penchant for locker room language. What is less well known and more bothersome are the bitter and sometimes savage epithets...
Though other intelligence agencies, including the CIA, run public advertisements to recruit technical specialists and other personnel, such candor is a bizarre turnabout for the BND, which has been supersecretive since the postwar days when Reinhard Gehlen organized it out of the ashes of Nazi Germany's military intelligence. The "Gehlen Organization" was as mysterious as its founder, who generally stayed behind the wire-topped, 10-ft. concrete walls at Pullach and refused to be photographed. But the old guard, including Gehlen himself, finally retired; and new recruits for an organization of 5,000 people could no longer...