Word: discredited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's speech was followed a day later by a 50-page legal brief by his attorney, James St. Clair. It attempted to argue the best case possible for the President by seeking to discredit the testimony of former White House Counsel John Dean against Nixon and by pointing up parts of the transcript that show the President in the best light. "In all the thousands of words spoken," it says, "even though they are often unclear and ambiguous, not once does it appear that the President of the U.S. was engaged in a criminal plot to obstruct justice...
Both Nixon in his TV address and St. Clair in his brief took dead aim at Dean, attempting to discredit him. As the week went on, the White House, having put together what in the transcripts is called a "PR team," increased the firing on Dean. Administration aides prepared a summary of contradictions in his statements and gave it to South Carolina Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, who had it published in the Congressional Record. When presidential aides found Thurmond's entry had gone largely unnoticed, Communications Director Ken Clawson gave another detailed list of the alleged Dean contradictions...
...part, we shall continue our fight against racist ideas being taught on the campus. As academicians we have a special responsibility to discredit the university research and teaching that continues to be used by policy planners, politicians, and the media to divide black from white and discourage us from fighting together for a decent, non-racist educational system and a non-racist society...
...Those unable to reap full benefits from their natural rights are apparently to stand aside from life for the sake of the more fortunate. Injustice is to be corrected by expunging its victims. We must distinguish and ruthlessly discredit that portion of our reaction built on a horror of the apparently grotesque. Our primitive urge to destroy that which is unlike and yet like ourselves is extremely compelling: perhaps it is the major force behind moral catastrophe...
...wants to discredit me," Herrnstein said. "Intellectually I don't see what we'll argue about, and I don't want a name-calling session...