Word: deviousness
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...compromise was possible, that the measure had to go through intact. At the hearing's end, Mills held out a compromise?and Connally snapped it up. Complimented recently on a good performance before a congressional committee, he hawed: "Well, I just got to tell the truth. I'm not devious enough to lie." A White House aide describes Connally's style: "It's deep bull, and since most of those guys are so full of it themselves, they appreciate...
DEMOCRACY may be new to South Viet Nam, but some Vietnamese already seem old hands at the more devious electoral arts. To back up complaints that the presidential race was rigged against him, erstwhile Candidate Duong Van ("Big") Minh and a number of disgruntled province chiefs gave U.S. officials several copies of a ten-page sheaf of instructions stamped "Top Secret." Thieu's government, they said, had sent the documents to the country's 44 provincial governments earlier this year. Whether the documents are authentic or not, they have already played a significant role in the election...
...Kissinger's coup of the Cabinet departments was not as simple as that. It involved a devious circumvention of the bureaucracy through the skillful use of study memoranda and detailed, lengthy questionnaires. According to several men who were close associates of Kissinger at the time, Kissinger came to power determined not to rely on normal channels for information concerning each of the policy undertakings. His attitude was that one couldn't expect anything imaginative or innovative from the bureaucracy, that one would instead have to develop pipelines of one's own. And so he proceeded to ensnare the Cabinet departments...
...sympathies lay not so much with the Castlereaghs who sallied forth from their island paradises when they found their interests threatened as with the statesmen who were naturally inclined to activist, interventionist roles-men like Metternich, who defended impotent Austria and finally commanded European peacemaking through the devious use of offers, deals, and threats...
...look very much like an arm twister. In fact, somebody said you look almost like his twin brother." Says Connally with an innocent smile: "I'm just an old country boy. I learned a long time ago, I'm not smart enough to be devious...