Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Certainly something happened to Mr. Nixon's Great Silent Majority-or could it be that there is a leak somewhere in the Power of Positive Thinking? Whatever the cause, or causes, had the gains made by the Democrats in the mid-term election been in favor of his own party, I believe the President would have called it not a "working majority," but a landslide. Who was the famous general who cried: "Another victory such as this, and I am undone...
Moynihan apparently changed his mind about the U. N. post after several major newspapers confirmed a press "leak" that he was replacing Charles Yost as chief delegate to the United Nations. According to close friends in Cambridge, though, personal reasons were more important than political or institutional pressures...
Brig. Gen. Leroy J. Manor, one of the raiders' commanders, estimated that the camp had been evacuated as long as three weeks ago. He dismissed the possibility of a security leak...
...good fight. A conservative with such influential friends as J. Edgar Hoover and Arkansas' Senator John McClellan, Frances Knight has left in her wake a trail of smoking Congressmen and State Department administrators. They call her the "ogress," and it has been suggested that she used to leak State Department information to Senator Joe McCarthy-a charge she firmly denies. In her most celebrated battle, she faced down Abba Schwartz, the liberal head of the State Department's Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. Schwartz, in an effort to ease political restrictions on the issuance of passports, tried...
...Nixon met in Washington with Premier Golda Meir to discuss new United States aid to Israel. A day earlier, in an off-the-record meeting with Chicago newspaper editors, the President mentioned the possibility of American intervention in the Jordan crisis (see WORLD). His remarks amounted to a calculated leak warning Arabs to move cautiously. The Chicago Sun-Times published a story on it, which the White House made no real effort to deny...