Word: indirectly
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Perhaps the most universally credited myth is that Watergate was stupid because it was unnecessary. Presumably this is intended as an indirect but effective defense of Mr. Nixon. After all, we are asked, would a campaign so far ahead in the polls perpetrate or permit a burglary of the Democratic National Committee? The President himself has told us not to think that he was that dumb. (A reassurance followed recently by another, when for the first time in history, a president of the United States felt compelled to announce to the nation: "I'm no crook." Mr. Nixon's rhetoric...
...became President, Ford promised, he would regularly seek advice from Congress and the members of his Cabinet-an indirect rebuke to the President, who often consulted neither, relying instead upon his own staff...
When the story of Nixon's phone call first broke in the New York Times, the newspaper did not reveal its sources. But Cox had been told about the conversations by Kleindienst as his staff probed the whole ITT affair. Cox conceded that he might have been an indirect source of the Times story because he had "carelessly" mentioned the Nixon intervention to two Democratic Senators, Edward Kennedy and Philip Hart, and some of their assistants. He said he felt terrible about this. The White House eagerly pounced on Cox and his staff, calling the action "an inexcusable breach...
...Only Indirect Influence...
Although the SACSR has only indirect affect on Harvard's stockholder policies, it has had some influence on Corporation actions. Two members of the SACSR are elected to serve with 5 Faculty members, 5 alumni and 3 graduate students on the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ASCR), which makes actual recommendations to the Corporation...