Word: coverups
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...Watergate coverup: "I had the feeling-and I think in retrospect I'd probably do it again-that I should stand by my friends. . . I should have destroyed them [the tape recordings of meetings in his office] . . . If I had thought that they revealed criminal activities, I would have been out of my mind not to destroy them . . . There's no way you could apologize that. . . would exceed resigning the presidency . . . That said...
...James was mistaken for a grocery-store robber and was killed by two white policemen. A department inquiry cleared the officers, but Patricia Bowden, with the help of Local Attorney Lawrence O'Donnell Sr., sued for damages. After a three-year investigation that exposed a top-level police coverup, a federal court jury awarded her $250,000 plus interest...
Barre finally made a copy available to the government (Giscard still has not). At a Jan. 2 news conference, Premier Pierre Mauroy waved the document before the cameras while he accused the Giscard government of being duped and then trying to engineer a coverup. Since then, the war of words has escalated. In another TV broadside, Giscard declaimed: "Francois Mitterrand is no longer qualified to represent the country. The present government came to power through lies. It is trying to maintain itself by lies." Disdaining a reply, Mitterrand has preferred, as the pro-government daily Le Monde...
Shultz's reply was quick, angry and scornful: "No coverup, however brazen or elaborate, can ... absolve the Soviet Union of its responsibility to explain its behavior...
...officials strapping on polygraphs would be a demeaning spectacle, both to voters at home and friends abroad. Any aides that balk, however, would appear to be hiding something. And should the Justice Department now turn down the FBI request and refuse to order the tests, it would smell of coverup...