Word: hearsay
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...after victory has been a frenzied and sometimes sloppy operation. The President-elect and his people are exhausted, often stunned by winning. Opportunists and party contributors swarm into Washington, smelling the power that has settled on the victor. Rushed beyond belief, the President-elect must too often rely on hearsay and vague recommendations about the men he recruits to guide the Republic for four years...
...such questions either on the grounds of lawyer-client privilege or the possibility that any such answer might compromise later opinions as a Supreme Court justice. As Bayh mournfully conceded: "I don't believe that you can keep a guy off the Supreme Court on the basis of hearsay." Indeed, though liberals will probably stage a Senate floor battle, it is likely that President Nixon's nominee will be confirmed...
...requested to make your report based on hard facts known to you: do not become confused by hearsay...
...unwilling to judge the case on hearsay evidence-if it demands to see the telephone company's transcript of the wire tap-the defendant may have to face a trial in the Cambridge courts...
...newspaper editors involved were faced with a stickier problem: how to handle the stolen information. Inevitably such documents can contain inaccurate, outrageous "raw" data based on unchecked hearsay. Attorney General Mitchell's statement was a direct plea to the press to suppress the information at hand. Yet the Washington Post, quickly followed by the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, decided to publish accounts of the theft as well as the general contents of some of the documents. Said Ben Bagdikian, the Post's national editor, after a telephone call from Mitchell: "We thought...