Word: dashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Distributing posters in Florida signed by a fictitious "Mothers Backing Muskie Committee" and reading: HELP MUSKIE IN BUSING MORE CHILDREN NOW (Committee Chief Counsel Sam Dash asked Segretti: "You were one of the mothers backing Muskie...
Still seething with some internal dissension over the handling of White House Witness Patrick Buchanan the week before, the committee hopes to complete its dirty-tricks phase this week. Some Democratic staff members have been privately critical of Dash for calling Buchanan to testify and for what they consider his politically naive, inept questioning of Buchanan, who verbally and sometimes brilliantly mauled the committee-and got away with...
...other things: one, the week after their existence was disclosed and before he gave his flat answer that he would not give them to the Committee, everybody and his brother began talking about how you couldn't trust the tapes because they could be so easily doctored--including Sam Dash [chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee], who started making a big point of this. It became quite clear that they would only be accepted as conclusive if they were incriminating. If they were exculpatory, they would not be, because then it would be said that the President had doctored...
After much discussion, the committee refused to grant him immunity -largely at the urging of its chief counsel, Sam Dash, who said that the 65-page opening statement Colson planned to deliver contained little new evidence...
...Then Dash began a series of questions to test Colson's determination not to answer. Did he know Hunt? Had he introduced Hunt to former Presidential Domestic Adviser John Ehrlichman? To every pertinent question, Colson cited the Fifth Amendment, refusing to answer on the ground that he might incriminate himself...