Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claim that on March 21, 1973, you "personally ordered those conducting the investigation to get all the facts and report them directly to me," and yet nobody has testified to receiving such an order. Has somebody committed perjury...
...cited by Weicker, the four participants at that March 22 meeting with Nixon testified that Nixon did not question them about Dean's claim that each was implicated in the coverup. According to H.R. Haldeman, the discussion centered on "approaches to dealing with the situation rather than a review of the facts...
Before the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964, Reston opposed further U.S. involvement in Vietnam because he was unconvinced that the future of South Vietnam was vital to American security. When President Johnson began to claim that that was the case, Reston was satisfied--but only briefly. By 1965 he saw that the war could not continue without a massive U.S. ground troop commitment, and he knew that although Americans were unwilling to give up the end of halting communism, they were equally unwilling to use the means of such a large commitment...
...Heath is skirting the economic issues behind the strike and trying to make it politically unfeasible for the miners to persist in their demands. Heath hopes to have Britons looking for reds under their beds with his charges that communists have infiltrated Britain's trade union's. His claim that the choice to be made in this election is "between extremism and moderation" indicates that the Conservative prime minister is unprepared to deal with the serious economic and distributive questions that lay behind the strike, and that he is equally at a loss to explain away the failure...
...Heath's claim that the central issue of the campaign is whether the elected government or the trade unions will run the country is another clear distortion of the issues. As things stand now, the miners are only trying to win a decent living wage for themselves. The government is trying to bail itself out of its own failure by denying the miners what they deserve...