Word: dismissiveness
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...possible effect the Supreme Court case might have on the impeachment that obviously most concerned St. Clair. Reversing their normal roles of worrying about the ultimate impact of a decision rather than the narrow legal question before the court, the more liberal Justices this time seemed to dismiss impeachment as of no concern in this case. Declared Brennan: "You have not convinced me that we are drawn into it by deciding this case. How are we drawn into the impeachment proceedings by deciding this case...
...also kindly dismiss my ouster from this country as something that can be remedied easily by paying $10 and applying for a fresh visa. My U.S. visa is now stamped in big fat letters CANCELED -DEPARTURE REQUESTED...
...said that the President was planning last January to fire CIA Director William Colby and have the agency investigated. But White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger supposedly talked him out of it. (The one fact that Colson later denied was that Nixon had intended to dismiss Colby.) Colson surmised that Haig and White House Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt worked incognito for the CIA and that maybe Kissinger did too. The President was prevented from acting by the disloyal people around him; his phone, Colson believed, was even tapped by the CIA so that the agency could...
After receiving the sensational Colson plea, the sharp-tongued Judge Gesell turned to the tense situation created by Ehrlichman's efforts to gain access to his personal White House files for his defense in the Ellsberg burglary case. Gesell had threatened to dismiss the charges against Ehrlichman if any ev idence held by the White House was denied him. On Monday, St. Clair had agreed that Ehrlichman, his attorney William Frates and a stenographer could see the files...
Hard-shell defenders of President Nixon have long protested that a biased and vindictive press is obsessed by Watergate and is inflating the story out of all proportion. Most journalists have tended to dismiss these critics as highly partisan, but a recent opinion survey indicates that dissatisfaction among readers and viewers is far more widespread. The California Poll, a statewide survey founded in 1946 by Pollster Mervin D. Field and considered by many researchers to be representative of attitudes nationwide, shows that about half the public think that print and TV journalists pay too much attention to Watergate, and that...