Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain amount of that. We get a rather significant amount of mail expressing that sentiment, and also lots of people who stop members of the staff and stop me or others who worked in the campaign and express regrets for how they voted...
Since the Watergate trials and tribulations of the Administration began dominating the news, there have been wide swings in public sentiment about President Nixon, his aides, Senate investigators and the press. Trying to measure public opinion can be tricky business, and this week scores of TIME reporters applied themselves to the task. For a special box accompanying our cover story, TIME revisited three dozen citizens whom we had first interviewed more than five months ago (TIME, May 28). For the cover story itself, concerned with the mood of America after the latest Watergate developments, TIME reporters round the country sought...
...hard core of Nixon supporters blames the President's troubles on the press. The sentiment is particularly strong in Oklahoma and Nebraska, where Nixon ran up huge pluralities last year, but it can also be detected in parts of Kansas, Indiana, Missouri and, to a lesser degree, in every other Midwestern state. "After the President's news conference, I wept," wrote Mrs. V.A. Atkins, in a typical letter received by the Tulsa Tribune...
...Congress: "They are like sharks. When they smell blood, they go mad." Another is J. Richard Nokes, 58, managing editor of the Oregonian, who declares: "A lynch-mob atmosphere has developed in the Washington press corps and in Congress. Now it has spread through the country." But majority sentiment in Portland is illustrated by the fact that Nokes' own newspaper receives 40 times as many anti-Nixon letters as pro-Nixon; one family alone wrote five angry letters in a single week...
...care what happens to NATO, I'm so disgusted," the new Secretary of State reportedly said. The State Department later denied that Kissinger had used the word disgusted to describe his feelings about the Atlantic allies. Whether he did or not, disgust was clearly the official sentiment in Washington...