Word: dens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during the day, he watches the Watergate committee hearings on television and prepares his defense in his small den. As he works, Mitchell has at times been so hyped up that Martha once asked his doctor to prescribe medication to slow him down. The doctor refused, saying Mitchell was fine...
...former director, John Kerry, participated in a debate here on the moral and political aspects of amnesty with Ernest van den Haag, professor of Social Philosophy at New York University and a writer for the National Review...
...den Haag maintained that "the purpose of law is to supercede the individual conscience." Draft evaders, he said, must accept responsibility for their actions which conflict with their legal obligations...
...den Haag contended that a war, whether just or unjust, represents a decision made by the government; he said that those who reject that decision cannot expect to be welcomed back as soon as the war has ended. "People who violate the law must not profit from that violation," he said...
...government's concern should be with justice, van den Haag continued, not with charity. A general amnesty is "contrary to the spirit of democracy," he said...