Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, as I've said, we peaked too late. But I don't think anybody can draw any joy out of what has happened to the country. It does vindicate the judgment that I offered free of charge a year ago--that this is the most corrupt administration in American history. I think few people would question that now. But that's the kind of judgment that you don't want vindicated. It's sad that at a time when the country has so many difficult problems confronting it that we have that kind of leadership...
...Well, I just would rather not get into it. We're not really competent to pass judgment long distance on the president's emotional and mental state...
...Well, it verifies the judgment that I advanced a year ago that this was a corrupt administration, but there is other supporting evidence for that: the ITT fix, the milk sell-out, the wheat deal, the misuse of campaign funds, the violation of campaign contribution laws, the secret and unauthorized bombing and the denial of it--public denial of it. Those things all add to the corruption charge that go beyond what is sometimes called the Watergate sequence...
...Presidents would have received wholehearted public backing, at least initially; as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said, it was a symptom of the times that Nixon did not. Instead, the suspicion arose that the President had overreacted to Soviet tough talk, either because his Watergate woes had impaired his judgment or because he wanted to divert public attention from them with a show of brinkmanship...
...Thomas D. Barr, who contended that a failure to reduce the huge award to Telex would permit it to "claim damages which are effected by its unlawful plan to appropriate IBM's business to itself." Conceding that he faced an "almost unmanageable" problem in trying to rejigger the judgment, Christensen first plaintively requested the disputants to appeal to a higher court. But by week's end he had apparently recovered some of his old self-confidence and announced that he would "promptly" reset the damages himself...