Word: coverup
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Substituting dots, dashes and asterisks for profanity is a maddening hypocrisy. Consequently, "A Good Word for Bad Words" [Dec. 14] was a breath of fresh air. Today's sophisticated reader prefers cusswords to the coverup...
...string of incidents, made public over the last two years, in which medical researchers have falsified data. One case involved Harvard-affiliated scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital, another involved several accusations of fraud against a former Boston University cancer researcher, and a third involved a fabrication and coverup at Yale Medical School...
Often it is not the act itself but the denial, the coverup, that wrecks a reputation. A suspicion will always linger that if Nixon and his men had not tried to cover up, his presidency would have survived; if only he had got up and confessed some thing. If only he had made what the Catholic Church calls a sincere act of contrition. It was not so much John Profumo's recreation with Christine Keeler that finished him as Britain's State Secretary for War. It was the way he lied about...
...then, during the last months of the Watergate crisis, as Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff. Democrats are expected to question Haig closely about whether he was involved in bombing decisions during the Viet Nam War, wiretapping of Nixon Administration officials suspected of leaking secrets, and the Watergate coverup. But Republicans rallied to their President-elect's apparent choice. Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, who will be majority leader in the new Senate, felt confident that he could find the 51 votes needed for confirmation...
MILLER'S APOLOGIA extends throughout the book. With Vietnam Miller never explores the careful coverup of the war's financing; instead he marshals statements from Johnson advisers explaining how they "anguished" over the decisions to escalate the war. The chapter on Vietnam is particularly frustrating, for Miller presents a few fascinating insights and then fails to elaborate on them. Former aide Harry MacPherson tells how Johnson was completely oblivious to the demands and concerns of the militant left, how he didn't even understand them. According to MacPherson Johnson was always asking. "What in the world do they want...