Word: liars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muskie's political base, Maine, any great source of support. Maine's last presidential nominee was the unsuccessful James G. Blaine in 1884, a man to tainted by railroad scandals that his opponents sang chants of "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine. Continental Liar from the State of Maine...
...defense attorney that he asked a reporter only half facetiously: "Could you hear the prison doors clanking shut?" Nonetheless, the defense lawyer, John J. Wilson, was no less impassioned in attacking the Government's chief witnesses, Jeb Stuart Magruder and John Dean. Wilson described Magruder as a "professional liar" and Dean as a "mastermind of chicanery, of monkey business, of flouting the law, of having no conscience." The defense attorney dismissed the White House tapes as having recorded nothing worse than the sort of talk that takes place in any family at times of "trouble ... or tragedy." Said...
...contest. "I decided that instead of participating in my own mini-Watergate, I'd tell the truth, not cover up and not sit tight with my nice job." The next reporter who happened to call got quite a story. Sprague made it clear that he considered Fitzpatrick a liar. For good measure, he called his superior "the worst district attorney I've seen in 17 years." With that, Fitzpatrick demanded Sprague's resignation. When Sprague refused, Fitzpatrick fired him. Since the dismissal on Dec. 5, Sprague, 49, has had a variety of job feelers, including private-practice...
...Camara, a vocal critic of the regime and a friend of mine. They were furious about stories that I had filed to TIME and the Associated Press that they considered favorable to the Recife archbishop and unflattering to the dictatorship. They cursed Dom Helder, claiming that he was a liar when he accused the government of condoning torture. Their tirade was accompanied by more shocks and my screams. Twice during the afternoon they tortured me in front of Luis in an effort to get information from him. He refused to give in, though I could tell he was distressed...
...that as Attorney General, Defendant John Mitchell should have ordered the Watergate conspirators out of his office when they discussed plans to bug Democratic national headquarters; 2) that the defense lawyers had done "a pretty good job" of trying to show that Conspirator John Dean had been a "liar" when he was trying to cover up the Watergate crimes; and 3) that, in order that the "TRUTH" could emerge in the trial, he was not going to adhere to "strict rules of evidence...