Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Resolved, that Richard M. Nixon has violated the duties and abused the powers of the Office of President of the United States of America. He has ignored his oath to execute the Office faithfully and to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States by conducting the Office for his personal pecuniary benefit and political advantage, misleading and deceiving the people of the United States and their elected representatives in Congress, and by subverting the principles of constitutional government. He has breached his duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed by willfully ignoring the laws...
...single piece of new information that could conclusively decide the case. There is much ambiguity about specific words and actions of the President. But the broad pattern of motives and strategies suggested by the mass of material leaves little doubt about the major aim of the President: to protect him self and his aides from the flood of disclosures that began immediately after the Watergate break-in on June...
Previously undisclosed evidence reveals a seamy, desperate attempt to pin the blame for the break-in on a couple of vulnerable faithful servants of the President. The White House tried to use Mitchell and Magruder to protect the President and his top aides. The method: secretly tape separate conversations with Mitchell and Magruder and then turn their words against them...
...decisions were peculiarly American and epic. They survive, and so will Earl Warren's place in U.S. history. Early in the Republic, the court's great challenge was to ensure the strength and capacity of the Federal Government. Warren's opportunity, and mission, was to protect individual citizens from the enormously expanded power of Government. That was, as Warren might say, only fair...
...customers and "that their own independence could not safely be assured if the United States and its allies were to be fatally weakened vis-à-vis the Soviet Union." (In plain words, governments of oil-producing nations might be overthrown by Communist revolutions from which the West could not protect them.) But if even one or two major importers break ranks, the oil producers will be encouraged in the illusion that they can get indefinitely any price that they...