Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger has often talked of his relations with the press in terms of mutual trust. As he told ABC News' Ted Koppel recently: "If you mislead the press consciously and you're caught at it, your credibility is destroyed forever." Kissinger set out to secure tight control over the press with his very first National Security Council staff meeting in 1969. He alone, he told his aides, would deal with newsmen. Roger Morris, a former Kissinger assistant, recalls in an article in the current Columbia Journalism Review that he and his NSC colleagues "were authorized to explore secret...
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...