Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that, uh, as I pointed out to John." When Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman mentioned that Hunt also wanted to get a pardon, Nixon, in the Judiciary version, replies: "I know ... I mean he's got to get that by Christmas time." The White House version also included this remark, but attributed it to John Dean rather than to the President...
...feelings about their press. In folklore, the reporter is Superman's alter ego, but he is also the Front Page cynic who would trade in his grandmother for a scoop. By way of a more elevated example, almost everybody (at least among journalists) remembers Jefferson's famous remark that if he had to choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government, he would pick the latter. But few recall that Jefferson also wrote on another occasion: "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper...
...President Nixon made his happy progress through the Middle East, that remark probably summed up much of the anger and frustration felt by many Russian diplomats. In Washington last week Soviet officials indicated privately that Nixon's reception in Moscow two weeks from now will be more restrained than it might have been because of the Russians' displeasure over their eclipse in the Middle East. Ironically, the U.S. has gone out of its way to give the appearance that the Soviets have been involved in the Syrian-Israeli disengagement negotiations, even as Moscow has played down...
...less engaging, newsmen tend to look the other way. The press scarcely dwelt on Kissinger's embarrassing 1973 interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, in which he saw himself as a "cowboy-alone astride his horse." There was little journalistic wincing, either, over Kissinger's extravagant remark at Salzburg that he hoped his diplomatic efforts would mean that "perhaps some mothers can rest more at ease"-a thought that would have brought derision had it been uttered by Nixon...
While most Democrats regarded impeachment or resignation as an inevitability that they were bound to support, Republicans were still anguishing about how to ride the wave that was swamping them. Scarcely a Republican could be found to disagree with a remark last week by Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker: "I think the party has no obligation whatever to defend the President." But they had not yet agreed on any concerted plan of action, such as going to the President and telling him to step down. Less patient outsiders have wondered why the Republicans have not summoned their courage and marched...