Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television reports. The story, by way of "candid White House officials," is that Nixon and his aides completely underestimated the virulence of the public reaction to Richardson's resignation and the dismissals of Ruckelshaus and Cox. Talk of impeachment led him to the conclusion that he had better "obey...
...people who have opposed impeachment in the past, but who don't think Nixon can act simultaneously as investigator, judge, jury, prosecuting attorney, court of appeals, and defendant--these people, too, should write to their representatives to call for impeachment. By emasculating the Justice Department and refusing to obey the courts, Nixon has left these people with no recourse other than through their elected representatives in Congress...
...most far-reaching effects on the personal lives of Americans. Are we to be programmed and made to perform like Pavlovian dogs and then condemned for what we do at someone else's whim and fancy? If so, we can only choose to balk, question and refuse to obey whenever we perceive the slightest lack of confidence or doubt in the wisdom of those rightfully ordained to be our superiors...
...policy, Lewis begins with another half serious, half self-mocking response: "That would depend on whether we had the guts we say we have...If we had the guts we say we have, there'd be three main approaches. First, a lot of American companies with Canadian interests only obey American law; for instance, they refused to trade with China, and now with Cuba...we'd stop that pretty damn quick. Then secondly, we would extend public control over these industries...Most of these firms are multinationals, which means that even when they are very efficient, so efficient that there...
...abide by a "definitive ruling" of the Supreme Court. But, by implication, he would ignore anything short of that, and he has never explained what he would consider "definitive." As Wright pointed out in his arguments before Sirica, the courts have no way to force a determined President to obey. Still, Sirica did not see that possibility as any reason to duck the constitutional issues. He declared hopefully: "Regardless of its physical power to enforce them, the court has a duty to issue appropriate orders ... It would tarnish the court's reputation to fail to do what it could...