Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were responding to their President's problems, senior TIME correspondents conducted a nationwide survey last week. They found differences from one region to the next; New England was most ready to see Nixon resign or be impeached, the South most willing to forgive his flawed stewardship or even defend him as the victim of his critics. Everywhere there were Americans who still applaud his achievements in foreign policy, and particularly in finally ending the Viet Nam War. But the dominant mood was a growing sense of dismay, disenchantment, despair, and a willingness to recognize if not approve that...
...third time during the week, Nixon retreated to Camp David. Once again his plans to defend himself had changed. Now his press conference was scheduled for Friday...
Kilson said the people who have written The New York Times criticizing his article--including the Harvard and Radcliffe deans of admissions and a Princeton University undergraduate dean--"want to defend a crypto-racist, white sentimentalist view of the role of blacks...
...illegal and quasi-legal means to achieve that centralization is not unprecedented. The process has been an on-going one since the 1930s. Nixon is quite right to point out the extensive use of wiretaps in the Kennedy administration; by the same token he could defend his phoney military alert by saying that Kennedy pulled a similar trick during the Cuban missile crisis to make his failure at the Bay of Pigs look excusable...
Ball, himself a former president of the trial lawyers' group, sees nothing unusual in his acceptance of Ehrlichman's West Coast case. "Hell," he says, "I wouldn't be able to shave in the morning if I refused to defend Ehrlichman." He intends to defend vigorously. When TIME Correspondent Leo Janos asked Ball about the case, the attorney was not the least bit reticent: "My client is innocent. Ehrlichman should never have been indicted in the first place. A key question concerns asportation-to steal, take, carry away. By God, tell me what was stolen in this...