Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ordeal. The congressional rebuff of Gray marked the biggest personal setback for President Nixon since the rejection of his appointments of Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. Nixon said that Gray had been the victim of "totally unfair innuendo and suspicion," and defended both the White House's request to see the FBI files on the Watergate case ("completely proper and necessary") and Gray's compliance. But White House rationalizations notwithstanding, Congress seemed determined to diminish partisan influence in the FBI in the future...
This brought protests from the White House. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler charged that such reports were based "on hearsay, character assassination, innuendo or guilt by association." A White House release quoted Chapin as calling the reports "fundamentally inaccurate." Clark MacGregor, Nixon's campaign manager, insisted that "Dwight Chapin just simply was not involved in any way." He said such stories were inspired by "George McGovern and his partner in mudslinging, the Washington Post...
Shake Hands With the Devil. Imagine James Cagney in the unlikely role of a professor at the College of Surgeons who doubles as a leader in the Irish Revolution. That's only a minor problem for this film. The dialogue, the direction, and the gratuitous sexual innuendo all work hard to negate the intrinsic historical interest of the period. It's a tough fight...
...seem to suggest, both through explicit statements and not so subtle innuendo, that anyone who supports Nixon must be as selfish, money-dominated, obtuse and unprincipled as you perceive the President...
...Innuendo. It is still not clear what Segretti's specific duties were, or just how unusual his campaign against Democratic candidates was; but the words "disruption" and "harass" were used by Segretti in talking to the Justice Department. The Nixon committee responded to the disclosures with a denial that anyone "in authority" had "authorized or approved or had any prior knowledge of the break-in at the Watergate or any other illegal activities." At the White House, Speechwriter Pat Buchanan claimed that the news stories were politically motivated. "We're not gonna play that game," he said. Presidential...