Word: ineptness
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Last week's developments demonstrated again that Nixon's Watergate defense has been remarkably inept. Asked who was to blame, one attorney representing a major Watergate defendant replied: "The White House lawyers." But he also sympathized with them, contending that the President handicaps his own defense by not completely leveling with even his own attorneys. Wan and worn out from defending the President on Watergate since last May, the loyal Buzhardt obviously has slipped out of presidential favor...
...said that the Watergate affair and inept handling of the energy crisis have caused "political maps to be torn up daily...
...also inept, incompetent, without principle and, it would seem, a borderline psychotic...
...joined his father's military campaigns. In 1931, after Ibn Saud had consolidated his kingdom, Feisal was named Foreign Minister and began to travel extensively in Europe and the U.S. After his father died in 1953, Feisal's oldest brother Saud became King; but he proved inept, squandering oil revenues on monumental palaces, flashy Cadillacs and grafting relatives. By 1958 the royal treasury was scraping absolute bottom, and Saud asked Feisal to become Prime Minister. In 1964 more responsible family leaders finally forced Saud to step down in favor of Feisal, who reluctantly accepted...
...rose steadily through State ranks-speaker of the house in 1953-54, attorney general in 1957-59 and 1963-68. But he never lost his love of the land and his country directness. A favorite expression when someone is talking nonsense: "He ain't wrapped too tight." Various inept politicians, Saxbe scoffs, "couldn't run a chicken downstairs with a broom...