Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Price says. If the Democrats had been caught bugging Republican National Committee Headquarters in 1964, "I don't think it particularly would have been news." In those June days following the Watergate break-in, Nixon's top aides informed him that John Mitchell--his close friend, former U.S. Attorney General and then re-election campaign director--probably had prior knowledge of the break-in plan and Nixon asked the CIA to head off the FBI's investigation of the incident. In so doing, Price says Nixon was following fairly standard presidential practice. "When you have a political embarrassment of potentially...
...White House insiders at the defense Nixon attempted to weave. In November 1973, Price writes in With Nixon, the speechwriter made an abortive effort to resign his White House position because of doubts about the Watergate case that were "not so much specific as they were a general concern...that there was more than Nixon had admitted to, more than I had been told...
...focusing on Watergate alone. But in his defense of Nixon's Watergate actions--in his argument that the press should have investigated Watergate, but just not so obsessively--Price is standing on quicksand. Even Price admits that although he continued to argue Nixon's Watergate case, he himself experienced "general doubts" about that case. And Price says that, given the opportunity, he too would probably have joined in the coverup...
Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, last night called the meeting "very constructive." He added that the two sides discussed "all the issues that separate...
...distressed that minorities are treated differently than other preferential admissions candidates. The general community looks with more hostility on a special minority admissions program than on admissions programs for other candidates--such as athletes or alumni children," he said...