Word: mistrust
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...then, while the paper remained fiscally sound, the editorial department came unglued. There was infighting and mistrust, which eventually spawned the factions that still exist. Why did it all fall apart...
Youthful Veterans. Describing the committee to reporters last week, McCarthy avoided using the word party. There will be no conventions, primaries or full slate of candidates. The committee's key staffers are youthful veterans of McCarthy's 1968 presidential bid; they share his mistrust of the party system and hope to lure independent voters to their cause. Party or not, the organization will give the quixotic Mc Carthy a political platform-if it can raise enough money. So far the committee has a mere $30,000, half from Detroit Lions President (and 1968 McCarthy backer) William Clay Ford...
...face perspiring, his eyes red-rimmed, Nixon scarcely looked at his audience most of the time, his eyes focused down and to the side. In one stunningly incongruous and belated insight, considering that it came from a man who was brought down by his own congenital suspicion and mistrust, Nixon told his colleagues: "Always remember others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself...
Nixon is not, after all, going to be impeached for red-baiting and he is not going to be impeached for the fear and the mistrust he has spread across the nation. He will be impeached for a bunch of penny-ante crimes, but not for what he has done and tried to do to the opponents of his wars and of his authoritarianism. A lot of people still admire Nixon for the way he put it to the left in this country; Watergate--because, in part, of the way papers like The Times have construed and reported it--will...
...fight against inflation cannot be given up. Left unchecked, inflation pries wide whatever cracks already exist in a society. Prolonged inflation represents a failure, and that failure breeds edginess and mistrust. In time it becomes impossible for leaders to succeed because voters demand that government deal with inflation. Yet so various and insistent are the people's other special demands for higher government spending that inflation continues. As Economist Friedman writes: "In virtually all cases of major political upheaval in the postwar period, inflation has been a common element...