Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thus of a quality that "could hardly be less satisfactory. Yet on this evidence could well be based public conclusions which could destroy the President." While conceding the importance of the earlier investigative work by Washington reporters, the Times wondered how Congress and the press now could "defend themselves from the very charge that they are bringing against the President, the charge of ... interfering with the course of justice...
When the plan came under attack in the primary's first television debate, McGovern showed he was not prepared to defend it. In the May 28 debate, which was broadcast on CBS's "Face the Nation," Humphrey gave the impression that he knew far more about the proposal than McGovern did himself...
...debate. When critics attack Senator Edward M. Kennedy's health insurance plan, for instance, "they're the ones who look like they don't know what they're talking about," he said. Kennedy "knows that plan, he's been living with it for a long time, and he can defend it quickly and competently with critics." Clearly, McGovern knew his own plan less well...
Mankiewicz and others in the campaign felt Humphrey's attacks on the welfare proposal were "political" and "dishonest." And indeed they were. But these are the kinds of attacks that liberal reform proposals will inevitably receive. A liberal "issues" candidate must be prepared to defend himself against criticisms of this sort. And McGovern wasn...
...past two-and-one-half years, and students' continued refusal to endorse the CRR underscores its role as a mechanism for arbitrary Faculty decision-making. Conservative hyperbole about the threat of student influence to Faculty rights is ludicrous; it is privilege, not legitimate authority that the Faculty seeks to defend...