Word: deceitful
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...embrace his promise to bring honesty and integrity back to the White House. Libby's indictment points to the arrogant and ruthless behavior of the people the President values as loyal public servants. It makes little difference whether Libby is found guilty. He is emblematic of a culture of deceit. Americans deserve better. William McCallan Temple City, California, U.S. Perpetual Politicking The column by Joe Klein, "the perils of the Permanent Campaign," exposed the core problem of our government [Nov. 7]. For the Bush White House and most of Congress, politics is a game in which the only goal...
...Stella Got Her Groove Back on her romance with JONATHAN PLUMMER, 30; after discovering he was gay; in California's Contra Costa County. "It was devastating to discover that a relationship I had publicized to the world as life-affirming and built on mutual love was actually based on deceit," she said in court papers. The revelation led her to suspect that the Jamaican she met at a resort a decade ago married her only to get his U.S. citizenship. Plummer maintains he didn't know he was gay when he moved in with...
...Margaret Thatcher in her nearly seven years as Prime Minister. The controversy has already prompted the angry resignation of Defense Minister Michael Heseltine and threatened to force the ouster of Trade and Industry Minister Leon Brittan. In the House of Commons last week, amid charges of high-level deceit and manipulation, Thatcher's critics turned the debate into a full-scale assault on her whole style of governing. Neil Kinnock, the leader of the opposition Labor Party, demanded an investigation...
...journalist, there is no original research here. Rather, Morrow draws on other historians’ work to support his thesis: “It was in 1948 that the three committed themselves to a mature and focused political ruthlessness”—including the use of deceit...
...case is easier to make for Johnson and Nixon. Morrow argues that Johnson’s Senate primary race against Coke Stevenson that year began LBJ’s legacy of deceit. Morrow borrows heavily from Robert Caro’s excellent biography, “Means of Ascent,” to describe the shameless way Johnson misleadingly portrayed his more conservative opponent as a lackey of big labor. Johnson won the primary after a local political boss “corrected a mistake” in the ballots for one precinct...