Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choose the best from the left and the right and arrive at a compromising middle does not indicate that people are tolerant or indifferent. On the contrary, it demonstrates that we in the middle are capable of exercising good judgment and prudence. All three groups are necessary if we are to obtain a just and free society...
...Republic." Buckley imagined a number of fanciful actions for which a President should be indicted, such as commuting the sentences of all federal prisoners or taking a six-month vacation. Notwithstanding such reductio ad absurdum, Buckley says, the principle remains: "Congress has got to retain the right to pass judgment on gross presidential abuses: the true, and studied, disrespect for the sophisticated obligations of office...
...Clair: This is being submitted to this court for its guidance and judgment with respect to the law. The President, on the other hand, has his obligations under the Constitution...
...more eye-opening passages in the Judiciary Committee's version is a 15-minute conversation that does not appear at all in the White House transcripts. It was omitted, Press Secretary Ron Ziegler explained with a straight face last week, because "in our judgment it was of dubious relevance." This incredible assertion was echoed by St. Clair. It contains this comment by the President on March 22,1973: "John Dean . . . put the fires out, almost got the damn thing nailed down till past the election and so forth. We all know what it is. Embarrassing goddamn thing...
...basis of what I heard that the government had made a conscious decision not to present evidence and not to permit the Supreme Court to know what any Supreme Court Justice sitting on this case would want to know and be entitled to know. That's my judgment having sat here...