Word: disavower
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...then, Perle was back in Washington. He felt the U.S. should stand firm on the zero option. He argued that while Kvitsinsky could disavow the walk-in-the-woods plan, Nitze could not, and the U.S. would be in the position of having agreed in principle to give up the Pershing II. That would let the West Germans off the hook. They would be able to claim the U.S. had admitted that NATO did not need the Pershing II after...
While both men reserved the right to disavow the deal later, only one of them was operating completely on his own. That was Nitze. Kvitsinsky had been in contact with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko about their discussions on the eve of what later became famous as "the walk in the woods." At the end of the talk, Kvitsinsky said he was not sure he would find the Kremlin receptive to the package. He told Nitze he would let him know through a colleague at the Soviet embassy in Washington, one of Ambassador...
...motives. Then, only hours after the Senate vote had seemingly put an end to the controversy, Ronald Reagan needlessly started it anew. At his Wednesday night news conference, the President defended Helms' "sincerity" even as he pledged to sign the holiday bill. Leading Democrats quickly demanded that Reagan disavow Helms. The notes of rancor were doubly distressing because the new holiday is intended to symbolize the commitment of all Americans to racial equality. Bills to establish King's birthday (which actually is Jan. 15) as a national holiday had been introduced in every session of Congress since...
...requires that a potential candidate either authorize or disavow a campaign committee within 15 days. That period can be extended to as long as 30 days if the candidate delays responding. Reagan at first wanted to take advantage of this time and allow Laxalt's committee to begin work without official sanction. "I wasn't comfortable with that," said Laxalt. "I felt if we were going to move ahead, let's do it in a straightforward fashion and not be cute about it." He told the President on Thursday he wanted explicit authorization to get under...
...unemployment benefits tax idea was initially floated to the media by anonymous Administration officials, but after the suggestion was greeted with a firestorm of criticism, the White House began to scramble pathetically to disavow the proposal. President counselor Edwin Meese's disclaimer was typical: The tax plan, he said, should not be taken seriously--for although it has been sitting on the President's desk, the Chief Executive had yet to peruse it. The very surprise that Presidential aides showed at the proposal's negative public reception suggested profound lack of understanding the nation's political concerns today...