Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center of this circle is the totem of Executive privilege?Nixon is ostensibly not protecting himself but his own and his presidential successors' institutional prerogatives. The irony is that the Watergate scandal, and the particular showdown before the Supreme Court, is more dangerous to the presidency than any voluntary concession concerning his privilege would be. By his actions, Nixon has invited a ruling from the highest court that may for the first tune put stated limits on the very immunity he professes to protect...
...President has ever explicitly defied a direct order of the Supreme Court when it was acting as a body. Franklin Roosevelt was apparently prepared to do so "to protect the economic and political security of this nation" in 1935, when the court was expected to rule that holders of Government bonds were entitled to payment in gold. But the court surprised him by voting, 5 to 4, to uphold his position. Andrew Jackson in 1832 sharply objected to a ruling that federal authorities, rather than the state of Georgia, should take jurisdiction over the case of a missionary...
...give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up or anything else if it'll save it-save the plan. That's the whole point . . . We're going to protect our people...
...readily to the Communists for assistance. The overriding concern by U.S. officials continues to be the maintaining of NATO and American military strength in the Mediterranean. The United States fears alienating fellow-NATO member Greece because of the supposed need for air and naval bases in Greece to protect this area for the "free world." This rationale only lends credence to the assertion by Makarios's supporters that NATO and the United States opposed his government's independent policies and are more comfortable with a government that will be more accomodating...
...their search for a cancer-causing virus and led him to synthesize for the first time a portion of a mammalian gene, thus bringing closer the prospect of genetic engineering and control over life. Fearful about what that might mean, the M.l.T.-educated Baltimore is now spearheading efforts to protect the public from "bio-hazards." "Science-fiction fantasies may come true very soon, and we should be prepared," he warns...