Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More specifically, Dean contended that the Watergate wiretapping operation was known in the White House by Chief of Staff Haldeman before the June 17 arrests?and since Haldeman regularly reported fully to the President, Dean "assumed" Nixon could have known. He said that he did not know firsthand, however, whether Nixon did, in fact, have such advance knowledge...
...Russia. They were studying productivity of crops and cattle-building up, Brezhnev told Scherle. When he moved on, Brezhnev left no doubt that during summit No. 4-that would be in 1975-he would like Richard Nixon around to take him out to the corn belt for a firsthand look...
...taking advantage of the thaw. With Special Correspondent John Scott, Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers and Moscow Bureau Chief John Shaw, I recently joined our nine international publishing and ad-sales directors for a six-day visit to Moscow and Leningrad. One purpose of our trip was to explore firsthand the prospects for trade between the Soviet Union and the West...
...often-cited weakness was his lack of firsthand knowledge of the land and people outside Saigon. He spoke neither French nor Vietnamese. He learned about Viet Nam largely through briefings, refined and delivered by optimistic senior staffers who drew their information from men in the field but filtered out doubt and dissent...
...incident left him with enough reflections to make him want to run for political office himself some day. "There is a breakdown in the political system," says Wills, who is now 25. "The American people are not aware of what is really happening. I've seen it firsthand, and it's opened my eyes real wide. I feel sorry for the people who look at Watergate and say it's just politics...