Word: claiming
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...President about Mitchell's anger, the tapes showed that he did not report he had been asked to call Kleindienst. This apparent lack of candor was pounced upon by Fleming, who got Dean to admit that the conversation had occurred at a time when, by his own claim, he was telling Nixon "all the truth"-an allusion to his revelations to the President about Watergate. Dean's acknowledgment of the omission was a minor victory for the defense in its attempt to impugn his credibility...
Executive Privilege. Nixon was totally misleading in an answer to NBC'S Tom Brokaw, who wanted to know how the President could justify his repeated claim that he was just following the precedent set by past Presidents in withholding evidence from the Judiciary Committee. Only Andrew Johnson, Brokaw noted, had faced an impeachment inquiry-and he yielded everything that the House demanded. Nixon conceded that Brokaw was right on Johnson but argued that the "principle of confidentiality" between President and advisers was applicable in an impeachment proceeding as well as in any other congressional investigation...
With this kind of broad agreement, the Senate last week passed by the remarkable vote of 80 to 0 a bill that may well turn out to be as revolutionary as Ervin and Percy claim. It would for the first time in modern history make Congress an active partner with the White House in drawing up the federal budget, instead of merely approving or denying presidential proposals or developing isolated and improvised programs on its own. A similar version of the measure swept through the House last December by a vote of 386 to 23. When the differences are ironed...
Many former students claim that their exposure to Kissinger in the seminars has helped them to understand certain key elements in his approach to foreign policy: an undisguised disdain for bureaucracy, an impatience with Utopian ideas, and an ability to view power relationships unencumbered by ideology. Several former students remarked that Kissinger had no apparent heroes, and that his supposed admiration for Metternich has been considerably exaggerated. Some Asian and Middle Eastern students criticize him on the grounds that he viewed the world in European terms and understood little about the Third World...
...They cause people who would not otherwise pay attention to the form to do so. But as with the old films, so with TV movies: the quick, deft westerns, mysteries and action melodramas that depend on well-established conventions may in the end exert a larger claim on our attention than their more pretentiously publicized rivals...