Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failed in Operation Candor, he and his defenders took the offensive, carrying out that pugnacious vow made last week at a private White House meeting with a group of Republican Congressmen. The themes were clear: he was innocent; he would never resign; he would resist impeachment as a narrow partisan political attack on him. And he got some help when Egil Krogh Jr. contended that the President was not responsible for one burglary carried out by the White House plumbers team that Krogh headed...
...other disputes and about his personal finances and taxes. So far as events would allow, according to White House spokesmen, he would now turn to other matters of national concern, while his aides and supporters took a new hard line on Watergate, accusing his critics of badgering him for partisan and selfish purposes...
Appointments to top staff positions have been made. As minority counsel the Republicans chose Albert Jenner, 66, a prominent G.O.P. attorney in Chicago who served as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission investigation of John Kennedy's assassination. He may provide scant partisan comfort to Nixon. In a TV interview, he said that "certainly within some areas the President should be responsible for the actions of aides," even if he did not know what the aide was doing...
...state level. For one thing, Westmoreland must first decide, as Ike did, whether he is a Democrat or a Republican. He has never even voted, much less joined a political party. "I always encouraged nonprofessional soldiers to vote, but as a career officer I would not be partisan," he explains. "I had to give my complete loyalty to whoever was Commander in Chief. Then in 1972, after retiring, I still hadn't decided which if either party I would affiliate with." He has spoken with emissaries of both, but in a state where the Senate's Strom Thurmond...
When White House Speechwriter Patrick Buchanan and other Administration spokesmen occasionally hinted about Government intervention to break the "liberal monopoly" of the national press, the gambit was obviously a partisan effort to pressure rather than persuade. It is different with Professor Ronald H. Coase of the University of Chicago, a British economist with no discernible political ax to grind. He suggests that federal regulation of the press would be appropriate on social and economic principle. In a scholarly paper given before a recent New York City seminar, Coase broadened the Nixonians' argument by challenging the special status...