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Word: delayer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appreciated how difficult a task it had been and the President was pleased that the case had stopped with Liddy." Dean claimed that Nixon also said, "That's helpful," when Dean explained that lawyers were making out-of-court contacts with a Washington federal judge in an effort to delay consideration of Democratic Party civil suits until after the election. The White House account asserted that Dean had merely "reported Watergate indictments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: The Battle for Nixon's Tapes | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...fired counsel. Dean had testified that beginning on Sept. 15, 1972, he and Nixon had discussed efforts to "contain" indictments to the seven low-level arrested Watergate wiretappers, offers of Executive clemency and payments of money to keep these men quiet, an attempt to influence a federal judge to delay Democratic civil suits until after Nixon's reelection, and ways to keep information from two impending congressional investigations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEARINGS: Mitchell: What Nixon Doesn't Know... | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

...enlisting the help of Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney, to raise and disburse payments to the arrested wiretappers. He scoffed at Dean's charge that he and other Nixon associates talked about out-of-court approaches to a Washington federal judge to persuade him to delay hearings on the Democratic civil suits until after the 1972 election. To talk to a judge would be "the quickest way to get the opposite results," Mitchell said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEARINGS: Mitchell: What Nixon Doesn't Know... | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

...Mountain Arsenal. The Army turned over the deed to the land in 1969, but as late as last May, it was forbidding jets to fly over the area because of unspecified "safety factors." Denver Mayor William H. McNichols finally went to Washington to find out what was causing the delay. He soon learned. Beneath the prospective flight approach, the Army still maintains a stockpile of millions of pounds of lethal nerve gas. "It took us completely by surprise," says McNichols. "The stockpile was supposed to be gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Hidden Stores of Poison | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

...never went as far as Thieu in making criminals of his opponents; but then the necessity for Nixon's struggle was born in his imagination. When Thieu threw his opponents in jail, as we have seen, he had good reason to believe he was taking a necessary step to delay an NLF takeover--for his opponents stood for the civil liberties and democracy which would bring the NLF to power. In the United States, on the other hand, middle-class democracy faced virtually no viable leftist threat. When Nixon's men broke into the Watergate Hotel, they were acting...

Author: By Seth M. Kufferberg, | Title: Watergate and the Indochina War | 7/17/1973 | See Source »

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