Word: discrediting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daley left out entirely anything that tended to discredit his police. While conceding reluctantly that police work, like any other human enterprise, can be improved, he stubbornly maintained that the police operations had been nothing short of "magnificent...
...other hand, Pearson has been helpful to L.BJ. too-on the assumption that the two men can be useful to each other. In 1964. a life insurance salesman charged that he had been forced to buy advertising on a Johnson TV staton after selling the President a policy. To discredit the salesman, the White House leaked his spotty military record to Pearson, who duly printed...
...unlikely that the bill will reach the Senate floor, at least in a session when most politicians are plumping for stiffer crime controls to get votes. It is just this connection between crime and death sentences that the testimony sought to discredit. After Delaware, for example, reinstated capital punishment in 1961, there was an increase rather than a decrease in the number of murders. The five states with the highest murder rates-Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and Mississippi -also were among the leaders in executions between...
...Familiar. Too often, however, the contributors to this book are simply blinded by their own racism. The fact that Styron is a Virginia-born white seems to discredit him instantly in the eyes of more than one essayist. Rather typically, Political Scientist Charles Hamilton (Black Power) peevishly sees Styron involved in a white man's plot to divest black people of their "historical revolutionary leaders." Novelist John O. Killens ('Sippi) writes: Styron "is like a man who tries to sing the blues when he has not paid his dues." And several essayists, without even the leavening grace of black humor...
...make L.B.J.'s last days in office soar. Aides are studying history to gain insights from predecessors, but the findings are disappointing. Eisenhower traveled widely and issued a warning against the military-industrial complex. But Kennedy was murdered, Truman disdained, Roosevelt died in office, and Hoover was in discredit...