Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...making Hutchinson the scapegoat and identifying him as a parricide, the patriots transferred to him the most frightening implication of their political resistance. As a result, they were able to regard themselves as continuingly loyal to the king, even as their readiness for separation matured...
Like Reagan, Weinberger believes that the 1980 election gave the Administration a mandate to revitalize America both economically and militarily. He is passionate about communicating this to the Soviet Union. Says he: "It is no longer safe for the Soviets or anyone else to regard America as weak, irresolute or divided." The Secretary's methods of signaling this hard line to the Soviets are not always diplomatically sound and have upset U.S. allies, particularly in Europe, on several occasions. Secretary of State Alexander Haig has often found himself "clarifying" or otherwise cleaning up after Weinberger's seemingly casual references...
...business. Look at what just happened with that research reactor in Iraq. I am convinced that the reactor in itself was not dangerous. But the lack of clarity on nuclear policy may have led to some suspicion. If we had been much clearer on our policies with regard to the supply of nuclear equipment to Iraq, maybe such unjustified suspicion would not have existed...
Lefever's worst liability was not ideology but his own unsteady regard for the truth. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston, a Foreign Relations Committee member, came out of the final closed hearing last week citing half a dozen instances in which Lefever had stretched the facts. Lefever denied, for instance, having said his opponents were "Communist inspired...
There is in him a moral connection between owing money and owing political favors. The personal independence he prizes, and that sometimes gets on people's nerves, is the same sort of independence he seeks for the city, which he seems to regard as an extension of himself...