Word: hindsighted
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...Irish Mafia, named by Sander Vanocur, then NBC White House Correspondent, still controlled the heartbeat of J.F.K.'s three-year-old Administration. In Scammon's mellow hindsight, there is no doubt that the tough, pragmatic, but often tender and poetic, strains of the Kennedy stewardship reflected the political culture of the Boston Irish and the legacy of J.F.K.'s grandfather, Honey Fitz...
...rely on hindsight so immediately, this was the most fulfilling experience of my four years at Harvard...
...that the opposition to the constitution did not pay as much attention to the rules as they should have, or they may have been well informed about the rules but did not pursue an appropriate strategy in opposing the constitution (though it is only hindsight that tells us that the strategy was inappropriate, so we ought not to be too harsh on them). But their failure does not seem adequate grounds for redoing the referendum...
There was, hindsight makes plain, something that should have alerted me early in 1973. It was the behavior of Nixon. I found it difficult to get him to focus on foreign policy. Memorandums came back without the plethora of marginal comments that indicated they had been carefully read. On at least one occasion Nixon checked every box of an options paper...
Denying any attempted coverup, Paolillo said that it is difficult to judge an officer's actions in hindsight because incidents have a different "smell," during a life and death situation...