Word: discreditment
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...secret group that was to become known as the "plumbers." The group was headed by Egil ("Bud") Krogh, deputy assistant to the President, and David Young, a former assistant to Henry Kissinger. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent, was Liddy's coworker. Their priority was to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, whose release of the Pentagon papers, a secret study of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, to the New York Times, had enraged Nixon. In a nighttime raid, they ransacked the files of Dr. Lewis Fielding, a Los Angeles psychiatrist whom Ellsberg had consulted. But they found nothing...
...have convinced many Americans of the bankruptcy of programs undertaken in the '60s to lessen economic and political injustice in America. The result is a narrowing of political alternatives for Americans. If the economic and political issues are defined for the American people in such a way as to discredit reform, then Americans will not address economic and political injustices...
...them belong to the Society for Christian Philosophy. Some scholars are attacking atheism and reviving and refining arguments for theism that have been largely unfashionable since the Enlightenment, using modern techniques of analytic philosophy and symbolic logic that were once used to discredit belief...
...should be possible to love one's country intelligently, without being either a schlockmeister or an incipient Nazi. (Anyone incapable of distinguishing between the Third Reich and the U.S. is a moral imbecile.) Patriotism seems so easy to discredit that it dies of contempt a few hours after budding. But the real problem is deeper. Americans who would be patriots must try to learn what it is that they have in common, what it is in the republic that is worth cherishing and preserving. Until they know that, their patriotism will have no more content than a bright, loud...
...Congress as a whole have compatible interests. Said he: "It's been my experience that public officials-say in Congress, for instance-want to get the rotten apples out. They're proud of what they are doing, and they are angered by anybody that is bringing discredit upon them by association...