Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision. I would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong-and some were wrong-they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interests of the nation. To those who have stood with me . . . I will be eternally grateful for your support. And to those who have not felt able to give me your support, let me say I leave with no bitterness toward those who have opposed me, because...
...passing judgment on the case, did so with information that was incomplete and in some respects erroneous. This was a serious act of omission for which I take full responsibility and which I deeply regret." The tapes, he also conceded, "are at variance with certain of my previous statements"-a euphemism for the fact that he had lied repeatedly...
Says Stanford Criminal Law Professor John Kaplan, a former prosecutor: "I have a strong feeling that it isn't right to behave like a banana republic and hound the ex-leader. But I regret to say I would go ahead and prosecute. It's a very strong case of obstruction of justice." In fact, even before the latest tape disclosure, the Watergate grand jury had vigorously wanted to indict Nixon while he was President, but was persuaded by Jaworski only to name him an unindicted co-conspirator on the argument that he could only be prosecuted after leaving...
...appear to have. As a result, those arguing my case, as well as those passing judgment on the case, did so with information that was incomplete and in some respects erroneous. This was a serious act of omission for which I take full responsibility and which I deeply regret...
...court in the desegregation area. "In the short run," he wrote, "it may seem to be the easier course to allow our great metropolitan areas to be divided up each into two cities-one white, the other black-but it is a course, I predict, our people will ultimately regret...