Word: misleader
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Other Senators spoke in a similarly ominous vein. West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd-a conservative whom Nixon once considered for a Supreme Court vacancy and who is highly regarded by the Southern Senators Nixon is most ardently courting -charged that the President was trying "to mislead the people and to sabotage the legitimate and constitutional impeachment inquiry." Republican Senator Howard Baker, a member of the Senate Watergate committee, declared that the "legalisms and narrow issues" adopted by Nixon had hurt rather than helped his survival chances and that he must surrender all "relevant" evidence to the Rodino...
Some of Ervin's associates contended that the committee's vice chairman, Senator Howard Baker, had helped mislead...
...unlimited access" to the tapes to verify Nixon's account of them, according to this plan. The selection of Stennis was perhaps the only unflawed element in Nixon's design. To his colleagues, it was inconceivable that he would have anything to do with a scheme to mislead the Senate. It might be argued that Nixon's offer to let Stennis judge the tapes was the most powerful evidence yet that they may indeed exonerate Nixon, as he has claimed all along. Yet Stennis had publicly praised Nixon earlier for standing fast against his critics on Watergate...
This explanation is unfounded on two accounts. For one thing, radical lawbreakers such as William Sloane Coffin (cited specifically by Magruder) conducted their illegal activities openly and fearlessly. Their actions were public actions designed to enlighten and awaken the American people--not to deceive and mislead them. More importantly, however, Coffin's lawbreaking was an act of conscience. He--and others--felt morally compelled, by a belief in God or in the value of human life, to disobey the laws of our nation. They put God, or conscience, above country...
...More Bombs than Ever" [Jan. 1]: The American people have been forced to suffer through a decade of broken promises from their Government. It is apparent that as the years pass, the Administration's ability to mislead only seems to improve. As tons of bombs rain down on the Vietnamese people. President Nixon speaks of a "generation of peace." One is left to wonder what generation the President is talking about...