Word: error
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...Agnew Issue. Nixon's most basic error may well turn out to be his selection of Spiro Agnew as a running mate. At Miami Beach, he effusively praised the Maryland Governor's "courage, character and intellect." Yet it was transparent that Agnew was chosen in large part because he was acceptable to South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and others in the party's Southern wing. Nixon spoke earnesty of Agnew's campaigning talents and called him "a statesman" who was amply qualified to take over as President...
...Wall Street Issue. Another error -perhaps only half an error-was the Nixon camp's mailing of some 3,000 personal letters to members of the securities industry, suggesting that a Nixon Administration would soften Government policing of its practices and reverse the Johnson Administration's "heavyhanded bureaucratic regulatory schemes." Since most securities men were fairly certain that a G.O.P. President would favor less Government regulation anyhow, it was hardly necessary for the candidate to spell out his position...
...Vietnam for the coming year would be some $5 billion over the President's public estimates. The next day Lazarus received a call from Justice Fortas, which the Times relates "was to transmit Lyndon Johnson's ire." Lazarus quickly recanted publicly confessing that he had probably been in error...
...come to pass that one of the best-known and most creative theologians in the Roman Catholic Church will have to stand trial for doctrinal error, an accusation not far short of heresy. Dominican Father Edward Schillebeeckx, the principal theological adviser to the Dutch hierarchy, has been under investigation by Rome. According to a Vatican source, the charges concern "certain apparent errors in his teachings and writings, aspects of which do not seem to conform to norms established by the church...
...advisors committed the cardinal sin of diplomacy: they failed to place themselves in the enemy's shoes and examine the options as he must see them. What would Johnson have thought if the North Vietnamese offered peace and then launched a Tet offensive? The answer is clear. The error was so elementary that Johnson could hardly have taken the peace initiative seriously to begin with. The tendency of American statesmen to judge themselves and their enemies by different standards is a continuing motif of the Vietnam...