Word: concessioner
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At the center of this circle is the totem of Executive privilege?Nixon is ostensibly not protecting himself but his own and his presidential successors' institutional prerogatives. The irony is that the Watergate scandal, and the particular showdown before the Supreme Court, is more dangerous to the presidency than any...
"Seamy Things." While Watergate cases were being played out in the courts, the impeachment of the President was proceeding in the House of Representatives with growing partisan bitterness. Two weeks ago, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino, announced that the committee would attempt to...
With each successive story, Novelist Frederick Forsyth (Day of the Jackal, Odessa File) grows richer and more book clubbable. He also finds it harder and harder to get his action to explode without leading up to it with an interminable train of exposition-in this case short lectures on every...
Despite the critics, détente has worked well for both sides in Europe, and each side has given up something and gained something. Through a series of agreements, the West has recognized the division of Germany and Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe, something the Soviet Union had long sought...
THE EVENING-OUTERS. These are the young marrieds, who, says one New York promoter, "are dressed to the nines, and smoke where they're supposed to." As mellowed graduates of the 1960s rock revolution, they will naturally show up to hear the Stones or Dylan, but mostly they turn...