Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office of the President." His audience, consisting mainly of prosperous radio-and television-station owners and managers, applauded both his sharp replies and some of the tougher questions posed by broadcast newsmen. Firmly and aggressively in command of the situation, Nixon insisted that he was not trying to hide anything; he simply wanted to ensure that no future President would be surrounded by fearful advisers who are "yes men" too timid to give their boss "the variety of views he needs to make the right kind of decision...
...year by living in as close to a slum as I can stand. I do not live in a room with $6,000 curtains nor chandeliers. I get the feeling that what I am in fact paying for is an annoying bureacracy that has nothing better to do then hide a folder from me and think up more ways to sponge money from me. Emmett V. Schmidt...
...Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. With much exaggeration, Nixon complained that the committee wanted "all of the tapes of every presidential conversation?a fishing license or a complete right to go through all of the presidential files." He said that "it isn't the question that the President has something to hide." But to let anyone "just come in and paw through the documents," he contended, would destroy "the principle of confidentiality" between a President and his advisers...
...very special circumstance of Watergate. This unique scandal is far more than a criminal proceeding. It has involved not powerless defendants but some of the nation's most influential officials. There have been repeated attempts to suppress evidence, minimize the case's importance, deflect guilt and hide behind the shibboleth of national security. These factors at first inhibited the press. Now the urge is to print everything obtainable in the belief that self-censorship would be itself a kind of coverup. In this atmosphere, there will doubtless be some excesses. Though Kraft is right in warning against abuses...
While about 300 demonstrators rallied on the green about 100 yards from the front of the Harvard Club, another 100 stood across the street from the club, chanting "Impeach Nixon, dump Ford" and "Gerald Ford: You can't hide. You committed genocide...