Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study by experts of the tapes themselves can set to rest any suspicions that they have been cut, erased or otherwise violated. There were other reasons as well. Explained one expert who has heard the tapes that are in the Special Prosecutor's possession: "The tapes themselves give the mood, the anxiety, the attitudes. Some of them reflect people banging on the tables, moving from here to there, raising voices. On that March 21 tape, Dean sounds as if he's pleading with the President. That doesn't come through at all on the transcript...
...Changed Mood. There was a similar evolution of opinion among Congressmen, particularly Republicans. On Tuesday, they lined up to praise Nixon from the floor of the House. After a day of reading, however, the Republican mood began to change. As Democratic Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill of Massachusetts noted, on Wednesday "not one man took the floor" to laud Nixon. In fact, many Republicans were profoundly shaken by what they learned. Conservative Republican Congressman H.R. Gross of Iowa concluded that the documents "do prove conclusively that Mr. Nixon made many misleading statements to the American people on his knowledge...
...proud of his political shrewdness, the President as revealed in the transcript was frequently slow to grasp the full seriousness of the Watergate matter, and he gravely misread the public mood on several important points...
...then, crisscrossing the U.S., Haggard had already found gas hard to buy at truck stops, found too many families hard put to feed themselves. Last fall, two months before the start of the auto-industry layoffs, he came out with a song annealed to the nation's mood. If We Make It Through December has already sold 468,000 copies and Haggard expects it to outsell Okie...
...nonsense words of Myra Wolfgang, a vice president of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, typified the mood of the more than 3,000 blue-collar women who gathered in Chicago in late March to form the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). Instead of recipes, the representatives from 58 labor unions discussed ways to end sex discrimination in wages, hiring and job classifications. They also resolved to organize more of the nation's 34 million women workers (only 4 million belong to unions) and to elect more female officials (though more than 25% of the AFL-CIO membership...