Word: liar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...according to a Senator from Tennessee, "an ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar, a natural-born liar, a liar for a living." F.D.R. concurred. Joe McCarthy kicked him in the groin. Harry Truman ranked him among his top s.o.b.s. In fact, Columnist Drew Pearson was often misinformed and vindictive in the pursuit of his foes, but he was never intentionally mendacious. A courtly Quaker gentleman, he raked muck with a silver hoe-he married money and made $7,000 a week in his heyday-and set a pattern of investigative reporting and permanently emboldened American journalism...
...being AFL-CIO President George Meany, who is now dead set against the President he helped elect in 1972. If Nixon does not resign, Meany wants him impeached and tried. The American people, he says, "have a right to know whether or not their President is a liar...
...Angeles, a policeman testified in a narcotics case that the defendant had indeed asked to see a search warrant, but had willingly admitted the officer without it. An incredulous judge refused to let the case go to the jury and all but called the witness a liar...
...Kunstler was cited twice-for a harangue labeling the proceedings a "legal lynching" after Ralph Abernathy had been barred as a witness and later, when Abernathy came into court, for interrupting the trial and embracing him. Dellinger was convicted on seven counts, including vilifying Judge Hoffman as a "fascist," "liar" and "the chief prosecutor." Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman got two citations each for stunts like dressing in judicial robes decorated with Stars of David...
RICHARD NIXON. Truman was especially incensed by Nixon's attacks years before on the character of General Marshall, a man whom the former President venerated. Admitting his hatred of Nixon, Truman said: "Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar, and the people know it. I can't figure out how he came so close to getting elected in 1960." Later Truman noted: "They say Nixon has changed, but they'll have to prove it to me. Where that fella is concerned, you might say I'm from Missouri...