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Word: cautious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will not be driven out of office by rumor, speculation, excessive charges or hypocrisy. He is up to the battle, he intends to fight it, and he feels he has a personal and constitutional responsibility to do so." White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig was a little more cautious. In what seemed to be a slight crack in the stone wall against resignation, he said: "I think the only thing that would tempt resignation on the part of the President would be if he thought that served the best interests of the people." That, of course, was exactly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Richard Nixon's Collapsing Presidency | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...have attacked him. The Wall Street Journal showed the split that often rends its front-page staff from its editorial-page staff. For three days the Journal ran Page One "leaders" that contained crisp summaries of the transcripts and interpretations critical of Nixon. But its editorial page was more cautious. One editorial concluded: "The President will not be impeached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Letting It All Out | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

Nixon instructs Ehrlichman to talk to both Mitchell and Magruder. Ehrlichman proposes a cautious, roundabout way of telling them that the President wants them to testify honestly about their roles. (Nixon here refers to himself in the third person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The Most Critical Nixon Conversations | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...proposal is modest but Degler's study penetrates sections of the South's nineteenth century social fabric. Degler shows that race subordinated class interests even among dissenters, that realism rather than moralism set the cadence of Southern reform rhetoric, that Union sentiment in the South was more often "cautious, conservative and realistic" than egalitarian. And so he concludes logically that Southern dissenters still "wore the stamp of their region. They were Southerners...

Author: By Dale S. Russakoff, | Title: The Other Lost Cause | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

Mary M. Lassen '75 said yesterday the picketing of local A&P stores will continue until the agreement is made definite. "Our hopes have been raised before, so we're cautious about being optimistic," she said...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: UFW, A&P May Be Close To Agreement | 5/10/1974 | See Source »

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