Word: dishonestly
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Clear Majority. In the most pointed questioning, Paul Sarbanes of Maryland noted that two former Secretaries of Defense, Robert S. McNamara and Charles E. Wilson, had sold their stock when they took office. "Should they have done that, Governor?" Said Rocky: "If someone is dishonest by nature, then he's going to favor his company no matter whether he's sold the stock...
Only if I am dishonest. People are upset because they aren't used to them. They're not concerned about small sums, but there's really no difference. You're either within the law and morally right or you've got a conflict of interest and you're morally wrong. It has nothing to do with the amount. There are two New York laws. One says that you cannot give or loan money for favors. The other says that you cannot supplement a [public official's] salary. I did not violate either...
Jaworski was especially emphatic on one point: he had no intention of challenging Ford's right to pardon Nixon, since he was convinced of its legality. He said it would have been "intellectually dishonest" for him to have tried to overturn the pardon in court; such "a spurious proceeding," he added, would have amounted to "unprofessional conduct" on his part. Jaworski strongly urged that his top deputy, Henry S. (Hank) Ruth Jr., be named his successor. Ruth, a quiet but effective attorney from Pennsylvania, had also served as deputy to the first special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, and had helped...
...Communist Party's wild fluctuations are often taken--reasonably enough--as evidence that it was unwilling to think for itself, uninterested in the real events happening around it, or simply dishonest. Few critics seem to have drawn similar conclusions about today's analysts. Instead, there've been considerable, and badly needed, warnings against a permanent honeymoon. The New York Times's Russell Baker warned that reporters were inflating Ford to a superhuman figure; in the September issue of [MORE], the Times's William Shannon chimed in with admonitions against letting Ford off easy or getting overly cozy with his friends...
...Author Luigi Barzini marveled at the way the U.S. has "survived bad Presidents, dim-witted Presidents, and Presidents who would have brought the country to ruin if they had had their way. It has survived the murders of a few good Presidents. It can survive the resignation of a dishonest one. In fact, the demonstration that 18th century laws could come to life and punish crimes committed at the highest levels of power has unproved the opinion the world has of the United States." There too Richard Nixon played his part...