Word: discredits
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...files are to Hoover's discredit. There is documentation that he opposed the Huston plan, hatched in the Nixon White House, to engage in illegal entry and surveillance. Hoover was doubtless proud of a 1940 memo telling how U.S. Communist leaders were urging party members not to vote for Republican Candidate Wendell Willkie since Roosevelt's re-election would make it easier to "keep Hoover's hands tied." He also resisted pressure-from undisclosed sources-to conduct a probe of Willkie because "the FBI would be accused of conducting a political investigation...
...ready to go before the television cameras with his evidence. Dash also suspects that Baker was behind Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott's move to postpone John Dean's testimony for a week while Nixon met with Brezhnev. It seemed at the time that the delay was used to discredit Dean in advance, but in the end, Dash felt it backfired because of Dean's well documented testimony. The only confirmation of Dash's suspicions offered here is Dean's own evidence that Baker met with Nixon to discuss ways of limiting the Senate investigation...
...thing, there has been an enormous reserve of anger and bitterness against the radicals ever since the Cultural Revolution. Zealots like Chiang Ch'ing and her ideological allies led the campaigns to discredit thousands of veteran party officials and technicians, humiliating even prominent companions of Mao on the historic Long March by parading them with dunce caps pulled over their heads in front of crowds of howling young Red Guards...
Five of Andersen's fellow members of the Big Eight last week countered with "friend of the court" briefs accusing Andersen in effect of promoting chaos and anarchy in accounting. The brief of Price Waterhouse & Co. magisterially thundered about "Andersen's evident desire to discredit the F.A.S.B. and substitute its own personal and private decision-making procedures." Said Touche Ross Managing Partner Russell Palmer: "Taking sides and looking to the courts will confuse the issue without resolving...
Your article on Roy Wilkins [July 12] distressed me. No single person has done as much to bring the N.A.A.C.P. honor and respect as has Roy. The reflection is on the governing body that took steps to discredit...