Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American democracy." The Boston Globe headlined a news analysis of the speech ANOTHER SUMMER RERUN. The Scripps-Howard papers, which customarily support Nixon, dismissed the speech as "regrettable, not to say disappointing," branded his policy on the tapes "a grave mistake," and added that "people with nothing to hide do not hide things." On the other hand, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, a loyal Nixon supporter, pleaded for restraint to prevent "the current overkill" from damaging the President's ability to govern...
...desire." Furthermore, said Agnew, he would be happy to submit to a "personal interview" with Beall "so that I may answer any questions you have." All in all, it seemed the performance of a man anxious to prove, as Agnew has claimed, that he had "nothing to hide...
...minutes of televised questioning, the Vice President branded a set of newspaper reports that he had once accepted $1,000 a week in illegal funds as "damned lies." He said that he had "absolutely not" accepted money for personal use from Maryland contractors and that "I have nothing to hide" in the way of finances. As for the possibility of being forced to resign over the matter, Agnew replied that he had given it no thought. He had "no expectation of being indicted" and thus had not even begun any "contingent thinking" about what would happen if he were...
While bombs fell in the wrong places, the dubious beginnings of U.S. military activities in Cambodia were being laid bare in Washington. Former Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird has insisted for three weeks that he never ordered falsification of any documents to hide U.S. air and ground activities in Cambodia and Laos in 1969 and 1970. Last week, however, that flat denial apparently became inoperative. The Senate Armed Services Committee, which has been investigating what is being called "the Cambodian cover-up," released a top-secret 1969 memorandum, which showed that Laird had approved falsified reporting to hide bombing raids...
...memorandum was the closest the committee has yet come during its month of hearings to pinning down who authorized the secret "double entry" reporting technique used by the Administration to hide the raids from the American people and Congress. Previous testimony established that B-52s had dropped more than 100,000 tons of bombs in 3,630 unreported missions onto suspected North Vietnamese sanctuaries in Cambodia during 14 months in 1969 and 1970. Last week, before adjourning until fall, the hearings turned up these other military activities in Southeast Asia, which hitherto had been kept secret...