Word: explaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Other Presidents, including L.B.J., have held background sessions dealing with personalities or events. But never before has a President admitted the public so far into his thinking about an appointment. To some, it appeared to be a typical example of Nixonian psychology, a somewhat compulsive need to justify and explain himself. But the President's motives seemed straightforward enough. He wanted to use facts to stop press speculation that might prove embarrassing to his friends, and he wanted to contrast the candor of his Administration with the deviousness of his predecessor's. He succeeded in both goals...
...very least of Burger's problems as Chief Justice. More important will be his ability to run the court and persuade his colleagues to accept his own traditional concept of the law, particularly in the controversial field of criminal justice. "A trial court," he likes to say to explain his point, "is like a three-legged stool: a judge, a prosecutor and a defense lawyer. Take anything away and the stool topples over." It is his feeling that the prosecutor has been so weakened by court decisions that the stool has in effect toppled over. As a result mainly...
Poher, by contrast, strove to explain "why an unknown such as myself had the audacity to enter the presidential race" and read on television one of the fan letters he had received urging him to run ("You have brought us reason to be courageous and hopeful"). Poher offered a platform that was the antithesis of Gaullism. He promised to do away with "prestige projects" and suggested that France could not afford De Gaulle's vaunted force de frappe. He also pledged a "profound change" in foreign policy, and to work for a united Europe for the "future...
...embarrassed by how easily he can pick up an extra $1,100 any time he gives a lecture. Hoppe gets his ideas for five columns a week, he says, by "reading through the paper until I come to an item that I don't understand-then I explain it to everybody. That's how David Lawrence and the rest of us columnists always work...
...some extent the Harvard administration seemed to explain this bias as a conscious reflection of an educational philosophy. Harvard was to train the leaders of tomorrow. Its glory was partly its mix of gentlemen and scholars. There was the expression of a conscious attempt to maintain the University's institutional power and prestige by placing itself at the service of the American ruling elite...