Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guess who is now getting blamed for Watergate? Martha Mitchell, says Richard Nixon, and then he adds, typically, "God rest her soul because she, in her heart, was a good person." Nixon takes off after Martha, who died last year following a prolonged bout with bone cancer, in the fifth and presumably last of his taped television interviews with British Television Personality David Frost, being aired this month...
...future I have been a public person always, and I continue to be a public person, unfortunately, except that I don't go to the office, and I don't have the same sort of feeling of responsibility. I had looked forward to not being Prime Minister, but I didn't realize I would feel this relief, as if a stone had been removed. I don't have any [political] plans, none at all. I can't have an anticipation of the future, because I just don't know what the government...
...Plyushch appeared at a press conference and told of his harassment and incarceration as a mental patient, Babayan said "Plyushch is mentally sick. Now that he lives in the West, you will see him and study him in the future. There never was a single case when a healthy person was placed in a mental hospital...
...trying to say to women stop teasing. There should be a restoration of modesty in dress and elimination from the community of sexual-gratification businesses," declared Dane County Judge Archie Simonson, 52. "Whether women like it or not they are sex objects. Are we supposed to take an impressionable person 15 or 16 years of age and punish that person severely because they react to it normally?" Voicing such sentiments, Judge Simonson let a convicted 15-year-old Madison, Wis., defendant off last May with a wrist-tapping probated sentence in the rape of a 16-year-old coed...
...association grants the Merriam Award to a person whose work has contributed significantly to the art of government through the study of public policy, Wilson said yesterday...