Word: impugn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...details of this charge also strongly support Dean's televised testimony about this conversation?and impugn Nixon's public statements about the talk. To a surprising degree, Haldeman's testimony had verified Dean's recollection of the conversation, although Dean had thought that parts of it had occurred earlier, on March...
...relativistic and duplistic moral standard are the real perpetrators of Watergate. Both of these conditions have emerged more from advocacies of the Left than of the Right--this is certainly true if the Right is interpreted as the individualistic or libertarian Right. The objective is not to impugn motives but to fix pragmatic responsibility. Policies and ideas do have consequences--not all of them foreseen or desired by the advocates...
While White House records and future witnesses before Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee may yet impugn Dean's story in a convincing way, it emerged from last week's test by fire as more credible than either Buzhardt's conspiracy theory or the President's less accusatory brief of last May 22. Instead of depicting a duped President and innocent top-level aides. Dean's damning version held that the lawless efforts to conceal the political implications of Watergate were an automatic and widespread White House response intended to protect the President's re-election prospects?and Nixon...
...Watergate trial, Gerald Alch, had advised him to claim that the break-in was a CIA operation. He said Alch also suggested that CIA documents could be forged to support this defense. Alch, as dapper as he was indignant, demanded the right to make a lengthy rebuttal and to impugn McCord's testimony. He said he had asked McCord's present attorney, Bernard Fensterwald Jr., why his client had made such a charge. Replied Fensterwald: "I can only hazard the guess that it is the result of Mr. McCord's faulty recollection. I think you will agree...
...sworn to uphold, and though the new American leaders probably had little real use for General Thieu-and were suffering the domestic consequences of what little use they had-they also felt it essential that no American policy precipitate the collapse of the South Vietnamese regime. For that would impugn their honor and damage their credibility, and those were concepts that did not come cheap to them. And in the absence of the regime's guaranteed survival-a guarantee which Hanoi and the NLF adamantly refused to extend-the only American recourse would be the use of sheer physical might...