Word: federalist
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...evidence traced "governmental corruption unequaled in the history of the United States." Asked Republican Cohen: "How in the world did we ever get from the Federalist papers to the edited transcripts...
...challenge to even the temporary power holders seems to threaten disaster. Clearly, the Founding Fathers intended impeachment to be a last resort, but just as clearly did they distinguish between president and presidency, and between a president and the kings whose oppression they had suffered. Hamilton writes in the Federalist Papers that...
...Another is the Nixon Administration's longstanding plea for "balance" in the press. The result is that some editors and publishers have sought out conservatives in the way that the New York Times recruited William Safire (TIME, Feb. 12, 1973). The former Nixon speechwriter calls himself a "libertarian federalist" rather than a conservative, but that distinction is a fine one. Safire and other new writers have surfaced during the Watergate torrents, and some have turned on the Administration that they would otherwise be supporting. Among the fresh commentators...
...wasn't white and didn't have columns. It was a beautiful shade of yellow, and beside it was a bed of trained yellow roses, and above it were those tremendous oaks. It was actually built too early to have columns, and its porch stood out instead with sober Federalist dignity...
...memoirs as dictated to Charlie, his would-be biographer. The Burr sections are Vidal's skillful précis of Aaron Burr's actual letters and diaries, containing intimate justifications for his adventures and intrigues. Burr, the sardonic wit, constantly sees through labels like Republican and Federalist to such common denominators as hunger for glory, power and the preservation of privilege. He talks of Washington's "eerie incompetence" as a military leader, while admiring the man's "fine talent for defeating rival generals in the Congress." Burr libels Hamilton as having been a British agent during...