Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transformation itself has assumed an interesting term. In 1960 Governor Rockefeller chided Vice-President Nixon for his failure to present: coherent program: The path of great leadership does not lie along the top of a fence. It climbs heights. It speaks truths. The people want one thing above all others--leadership of clear purpose, candidly expressed." The very candor and clarity of purpose which Rockefeller saw missing in Nixon's speeches are today missing...
...What the news press and the American people need at this time," said Maier, "is an authoritative and clear-cut assurance from this Administration that there is no place in its program for the use of the lie as an instrument of national policy." Editors and publishers are "concerned," he added, "when an Administration official speaks of using news as a weapon in the cold war, of controlling and managing the flow of news, and even of the Government's 'right to lie...
...countries and the rationale for the $500 million figure that the Committee plucked, seemingly, from the air, are not the only points that it has been reluctant to talk about. It shows concern about the deficit in U.S. balance of payments accounts, but will not say where these deficits lie or how changes in foreign aid might correct them, aside from approval of an existing policy to the funds to purchases of American goods. It dismisses debate of all the proposals for new international monetary arrangements with the grandiloquent dogma that: Upon international dollar convertability at the existing gold parity...
Part of the Clay Committee's difficulties must lie in the fact that Presidential committees are rare birds in this country, and therefore have no clear code of behavior to follow. The reason for their rarity is simple enough: the American Congress is assumed to fulfill the same function as the fact-finding commissions in European countries, and in truth, in matters that affect only the workings of the Executive, it fulfills it not too badly. Furthermore, extra-governmental organs such as the American Assembly at Arden House or the businessmen's Committee on Economic Development are always busy looking...
...from the profane American. "Although they descend from people who could not succeed in Europe and furiously shook its dust from their feet, they have a sentimental feeling for ancestors. They even look for them in England, nurturing a strange belief that in some country churchyard Hoggefeller and Potemkine lie dust to dust with Hogward and Potkin...