Word: relief
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...years that he has been shaping U.S. foreign policy, the Secretary of State has never lacked a large and enthusiastic following in the press and public. They have applauded his statecraft spectaculars, been entertained when he stepped out with starlets, and generally turned to him for relief from the sullenness and secrecy that have characterized much of the rest of the Nixon Administration...
Whatever psychic relief and favor able publicity are generated by the President's foreign travels, they cannot stop or even slow the machinery that threat ens the Nixon presidency. Last week, as Nixon prepared to go abroad, Capitol Hill and Washington courtrooms produced only bad news...
...with the admonition: "You son of a bitch, don't you understand the English language?" Certainly the Senate committee had been totally deceived by his testimony. But Hart fined Kleindienst only $100, gave him a 30-day jail sentence-and suspended both penalties. Tears, presumably of gratitude and relief, streamed down Kleindienst's cheeks as he left the courtroom...
...early May, some officials of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department expressed relief that Mayman's office hadn't meddled with their "independence." Within the week, their concern shifted to another area, when the VES executive committee--half of whose members have no formal connection with VES--made a decision not to rehire three popular teachers, two of whom had played a leading role in the Department from the time of its inception...
...administration such as Nixon's, where crass corruption has cut so deep, any modicum of integrity can seem to be admirable. Against the dismal background of Watergate, the refusal of Elliot L. Richardson '41 last October to fire former Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox '34 appeared a welcome relief. But Richardson's minimal act, clearly also an act of political necessity, did not erase his earlier record. Nor did his supposed act of conscience remedy the vicious policies of which Watergate was the dramatic consequence--policies Richardson helped implement as Secretary of Defense and earlier as Secretary of Health, Education...