Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laughing, joking Nixon confided to his dinner companion, Mrs. Rogers Morton, wife of the Secretary of the Interior, that he believed history would regard Watergate as inconsequential in comparison with his accomplishments in foreign policy. Late in the week he flew to Norfolk to recite those accomplishments and defend his bombing policy before an Armed Forces Day audience...
...term, and a job when he got out. McCord said that he would not keep quiet and planned to talk publicly about the case "when I was ready." Warned Caulfield: "You know that if the Administration gets its back to the wall, it will have to take steps to defend itself." Testified McCord: "I took that as a personal threat, and I told him that I had had a good life, that my will was made out, and that I had thought through the risks and would take them when I was ready...
...attacked not just alleged Communists but also their colleagues, friends and relatives. He almost never seriously tried to check facts. Finally, he was backed by a whole apparatus of secret interrogations and blacklists by which a victim could be deprived of reputation and livelihood without any chance to defend himself. The term McCarthyism should be used with precision-as a synonym for nothing less than demagoguery and deceit...
Angry Storm. Few members of the Congress disagreed with the President on the issue of withholding aid to Hanoi, but many were angry about the continued U.S. bombing in Cambodia. When Secretary of State William Rogers appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to defend the Administration's bombing campaign in Cambodia, he was greeted by a storm of opposition. The bombing, declared Democrat Edmund Muskie of Maine, "is without justification in policy, in the Constitution or in the law." Demanded New York Republican Jacob Javits: "Is this a commitment forever? When does...
...PHILANDERER. I guess you could call Shaw a communist, and he was pretty discontented with Jesus's refusal to defend himself. The Philanderer takes place in an Ibsen club, and it's hard on half-assed radicals. Like me. Tonight through Saturday, 8 in the Lowell House...