Word: candor
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...reading only for those newspaper freaks who must know where H.L. Mencken and Russell Baker went to high school. Crouse has a good angle on history. His behind-the-scenes view of McGovern's defeat gives a key to some of the man's personal qualities--an embarrassing candor and an inability to remain detached or be "political"--that figured in his failure...
...First there were blanket denials, lavish claims of Executive privilege and invocations of national security. Then came repeated clarifications, previous statements declared "inoperative," and multiple promises of full disclosure. Subpoenas were resisted. The persistent Special Prosecutor was fired. Next a sudden yielding to the courts, followed by an Operation Candor that was far from candid, claims that crucial tapes were "nonexistent" and the revelation of a mysterious flaw in one recording. Observes TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey: "It all falls into place, it all makes sense, if one makes a very simple assumption: Nixon is guilty?he knew what...
...finally stand against a declaration of the President of the United States on any but the strongest possible evidence." Nonetheless, he would have to examine the tapes himself in order to determine whether the President's case for not yielding them was valid. "In all candor," Sirica said, "the court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the President of the United States who holds the evidence." Asked Sirica rhetorically: "What distinctive quality of the presidency permits its incumbent...
...year for Richard Nixon. He had launched Operation Candor in the final few months to try to regain credibility by revealing information about himself and his activities. There were the inconclusive chats with groups of Congressmen about his role in Watergate, the televised press conference at Disney World with managing editors, and the release of information about his income tax returns. But the operation was too little, too late; each move only seemed to raise more questions. Finally, the President decided to cut back on Candor...
...deliver material that had been subpoenaed by Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee. The material includes 486 tapes and hundreds of documents that possibly bear on a variety of scandals. Just how the White House planned to deal with the subpoenas remained to be worked out, but Operation Candor obviously was hurt again. Late in the week, the White House did recover some ground by announcing that it would be releasing documents-although no summaries of tapes-dealing with the milk fund and the ITT case, the relatively favorable antitrust settlement that was granted to the conglomerate...