Word: lames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gore Vidal, Allen Drury and Tom Wicker (the novelist) share with Richard Nixon a common flaw: all have failed to make our capital city believable. One explanation of why Washington fiction is so lame may be that while the stages and settings are of heroic size and the plots involve the fate of nations, the figures shouting speeches and shaking swords seem absurdly tiny...
Kristen had received heart surgery at a Cleveland hospital five weeks before the broadcast. Further, the A.M.A. said, the girl had always been eligible for free medical attention through Ohio's crippled children program. NBC's rather lame response: the Knapps had not been made aware of the benefits available to their daughter at the time the documentary was filmed, and NBC had been unable to reach the family for an updated report on Kristen before broadcast time...
...Lame Answer. Chairman Ervin sharply disagreed with Mitchell's prediction of dire consequences had Nixon been told the truth and suggested that even if the President had "lowered the boom," his decisiveness would have impressed voters, and "he would have made his election more sure than ever." That was mere speculation, and in a way beside the point. The point was that Mitchell put the re-election of one man, however deserving, above...
What bothered some Senators was why, after Nixon was reelected, Mitchell still did not tell the President what he knew about the crimes committed on Nixon's behalf. Mitchell's lame answer was that he thought the reshuffling of personnel in the new Administration would take care of the problem...
...money. He was later partly rescued by Senator Sam Ervin, who introduced a brokerage-account statement showing that Dean had more than $26,000 available at the time. Yet Dean's explanation that he took the cash for honeymoon and other expenses rather than use credit cards seemed lame...