Word: punisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's eyes, reporters are either to be used or avoided. And Reston points out that the relationship is an unequal one because the President can decide when he makes an announcement, and whom he gives the scoop to--an advantage which allows him to reward one reporter and punish another. The ideal situation, Reston continues, would be to have the President use the press as an educating arm of the government which explained the problems of the State Department to the people...
...manipulation of the Tonkin Resolution has grievously undermined any role Congress could play in influencing his Vietnam decisions. This is the crux of the dispute -- Fulbright and the eight members of the committee quite logically feel that Johnson has been guilty of duplicity. And they have decided to punish him by withholding a diplomatic tool he has misused in the past...
...says, "you can't control the client. If they haven't paid for advice, they won't take it." Foreman has also boasted that his fee methods top mere law in chastising any of his clients who may be guilty. As he puts it: "I can punish them through the pocketbook, where it really hurts...
...Secular Rulers: "A wise prince is a rare bird indeed; still more so a pious prince. They are usually the greatest fools or the worst knaves on earth. They are God's jailers and hangmen, and His divine wrath needs them to punish the wicked...
...decision to exclude Powell ignored the compelling argument for seating him: Powell fulfills the Constitutional qualifications for a place in Congress. Certainly the Harlem minister abused many of the prerequisites of his office, yet the recommendations of the select committee that were voted down would have served to punish his financial chicanery as well as removing him from the center of power he often used for purely personal advantage...