Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stolen property, no body count, no looted treasury. Moral transgressions, while quickly deplored, are not so easily brought to judgment, especially in a nation whose basic life-style is still fundamentally intact. But people are feeling the weight of the developing crises, and it is NIXON & KISSINGER growing heavier. Hugh Sidey...
...major element in the anti-Dean drive has been selective leaks of summaries prepared by the White House of Watergate-related conversations between Dean and President Nixon. After looking at them, Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott insisted that they exonerate Nixon on some aspects of Watergate, presumably the cover-up of the origins of the wiretap and burglary at Democratic National Headquarters. Scott said that they also provide reasons for charging Dean with perjury in his Senate Watergate hearings testimony Last week Columnist Jack Anderson printed some excerpts from the White House summary of a March 21, 1973, Nixon-Dean...
While the House has been struggling with impeachment, the Senate has adopted an attitude of watchful waiting on the issue. Neither Majority Leader Mike Mansfield nor Minority Leader Hugh Scott has even allowed any time for an impeachment trial in their advance planning for the year. "I don't think the House will impeach," says Scott flatly. In an effort to keep wavering Republicans in line, Scott has warned: "History does not deal gently with regicides." For his part, Mansfield hopes that the House will not impeach "because politically it will help no one, and it will hurt...
Looking down as we made our approach I saw a hugh sprawl of buildings--arranged by some methodical mind that must have paid meticulous attention to right angles. Some 40,000 men were stationed at Cam Ranh in 1968 and the base had every sort of facility: stores, clubs, hospitals, restaurants, steam-baths, bars, barracks, airfields, laundries and row upon row of little air-conditioned hootches for Air Force pilots...
...presumably, all 8,093,858 Britons who had voted the Tory ticket in 1945-as "lower than vermin." Nor were his own leaders spared Nye's spiced tongue. He thought of his Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, as a Mirabeau and an archmediocrity. He called the humane and thoughtful Hugh Gaitskell, Attlee's successor as party leader, a "desiccated calculating machine." Nye was, as Michael Foot amply documents, his own worst enemy-although, as Labor Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin once retorted, "Not while I'm alive...