Word: discredited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discuss the subject. Said Warren: "Our strategy will become clear as events unfold in maybe five days, ten days or 20 days." Added Communications Director Ken W. Clawson: "Did Eisenhower tell the Germans when he was going to invade Normandy?" Privately, aides planned a soft-sell campaign to discredit the charges by contending that they are too flimsy and general to be considered grounds for impeachment-the same arguments voiced by Nixon supporters on the Judiciary Committee. One White House political strategist declared: "During the Judiciary Committee debate, inference was king, innuendo was queen, and together they reigned triumphantly over...
...long hours consumed in the dispute were turned into a prime-time display of partisan maneuvering. The Nixon sup porters sought to delay a final vote, hoping to discredit and dis courage the majority, perhaps even win back one or two of their strayed Republicans. Since the loyalists were demanding facts, many Democrats used their turn at the microphones to spin out the litany, as they saw it, of Nixon's misdeeds. Most able of all at this was California's Waldie, whose sporadic running narrative was dismissed by Republican Wiggins as "Waldie's fable...
...perhaps because of assumptions it makes about its readers or perhaps out of sloppiness--didn't bother to recognize the possibility that people might not see the memorandum for the hack job it is. It never placed the profile in the context of a contrived and systematic attempt to discredit the Ellsberg defense and only in a news story three pages away did it quote anyone as questioning the profile's accuracy. The Times presumed that everyone has realized just how demented Richard Nixon and his government are, and that's not a safe assumption for anyone, let alone...
...than the accused are irrelevant. "Previously," explains Ralph Brown, a lawyer and member of the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women, "a lawyer could ask a victim how many men she had slept with in the past month, year or five years." By this questioning, he managed to discredit all of her testimony...
...School Forum set up a debate for mid-October between Shockley and Roy Innis, national director of the Congress on Racial Equality. The debate was Innis's idea; he thought he could humiliate Shockley and discredit...