Word: obstructiveness
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...Haldeman?as one full of "smiles." He said that Nixon remarked to him: "Bob here tells me you've been doing fine work." If accurately reported by Dean, the meeting has grave implications. It means that Nixon knew some eight months ago that his high aides had worked to obstruct the various investigations in the case?and the President has been lying to the public about Watergate at least since that time. Dean's motives were certainly cloudy, and his story very much remains to be tested...
...question of national security could enter into an investigation of the illegal "third-rate" bugging of Democratic National Headquarters. But it is even more inconceivable that Ervin and his committee, before a national television audience, will be satisfied if Ehrlichman, Haldeman and the entire cast of Watergate characters obstruct the committee's attempt to bring out the facts about the bugging. When Ervin -- and the country -- demands to know if the Presidency was used for espionage purposes, or to cover up, it will not be sufficient to reply, "I refuse to answer on the basis of executive privilege...
...article in The New York Times Sunday, Dershowitz said that former chief Justice Earl Warren feared the proposed appellate court would be a political tool to obstruct the Supreme Court...
...equal voice in determining the character of Harvard and Radcliffe life. Were the source of this pressure a viable undergraduate organization, the Faculty might accept University democracy more readily. Without such a union, change will come only slowly, fostered in crises when an atmosphere of stress must inevitably obstruct the most foresighted planning and constructive negotiation...
Then there's Robert Silverberg's "Sundance", embodying the dilemma of Tom Two Ribbons, "a biologist-spaceman of American Indian descent," and a member of an expedition to eliminate the race of the Eaters, animal pests who obstruct the colonization of an alien planet. When Tom begins to think he perceives an elaborate set of rituals and social relations among the Eaters, is it interplanetary genocide or only the failure of his "psychological reconstruct" to protect him from his own historic past...