Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Psychiatrist Davidson, who traveled with the McCarthy presidential campaign in 1968, argues that "politicians have overextended themselves physically and emotionally to the point where their judgment is impaired." Rather than lead the errant husband back to reality, the family tends to become overprotective for fear of letting him down. Through the best of intentions, they thus confirm him in his illusions. Barbara ("Bootsie") Mandel, whose husband of 32 years, the Democratic Governor of Maryland, deserted her last year in order to marry a younger woman, concurs. "A man like Marvin Mandel, he starts to believe what his staff tells...
...first thought of the nation was to wonder about Ford's judgment, the second thought so painfully coming on is that he may be shown to have been more right than wrong. As Vice President, he was aware in Nixon's last frantic hours of all the pardon schemes proposed by Nixon's people. He stayed away from them. Almost his first impulse in office was to get Watergate behind us, and with Nixon in San Clemente he thought that the process had started. Then, on the afternoon of Aug. 28, he walked out of his first...
...Ford. He declared that Nixon's acceptance of his pardon was "tantamount to admitting guilt." While he called the pardon "an act of conscience, compassion and courage," Rockefeller said that his "total inclination" was not to grant a similar pardon if he should ever have to sit in judgment on Jerry Ford. Yet Rockefeller refused to say that he would never grant a pardon under any circumstances...
...there is no difference of view on that. There is, in my judgment, a question that requires more initiatives: the Palestinian question. It goes back to the question of protecting the borders, and dangers in the cease-fire line. I think the problem now is centered on the Palestinian question. As such, one must not hide from it and must look at it as a problem...
...sovereign states we need an intelligence agency, and as intelligence agencies go, the CIA is fairly good. The problem occurs when Presidents and Secretaries of State begin to think that James Bond has any relevancy to the real world. It is not William Colby who should be brought to judgment about the U.S. role in Chile, but Henry Kissinger...