Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certainly does. On balance, the lists revealed not only paranoia but ludicrous judgment. As S. Sterling Munro Jr., chief aide to Senator Henry M. Jackson, put it: "Where do they get these clowns, anyway? They have absolutely no political judgment at all. My only problem now is that all my colleagues on the Senate staffs are envious...
That is indisputable, but a harsher judgment ought perhaps to be rendered as well. Although lawyers have always had to be concerned about striking the proper balance between advice and advocacy, there are special pressures today because of the way some of the best and brightest attorneys practice their profession. In business, lawyers of ten take over as operating officers...
...that, certainly about what had happened immediately after the Nixon committee was linked to the arrested men at the Watergate, and that Mitchell resigned. Yet Mitchell has too high a regard for the President to admit this, if true, and in this experienced politician's judgment, Haldeman is too tough and loyal to change his testimony. Ehrlichman, in this view, is the weakest of the trio...
...letter was an honest attempt to rectify a possible mistake in judgment...
...defense." The Post also argued that in a similar scandal a British government would fall. "We are not Britain," the Post said. "We have a different set of checks and balances, which grant a President a fixed, firm term of office while holding him answerable, every day, to the judgment of the people...