Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sir / When the President of our country thinks that he and his associates can violate the law with impunity, we must either change the name of our governmental system from democracy to dictatorship or change Presidents. I personally prefer the latter...
...Sir / The hostile hypocrites of the press and Congress have "got religion" about political campaigns a little too late to make them credible. An equal application of the law requires that this Republican President be judged by no harsher standards than were his Democratic predecessors...
...Sir / How many hundred times have we heard the President preach law-and-order to our countrymen while at the same time refusing to practice it himself? When anyone holding the highest office in the country places himself above the law, it is indeed time for a change...
...Sir / The arrogant Mr. Sinatra doesn't like the press, just as his friend the arrogant Mr. Agnew didn't like it, or the arrogant Mr. Nixon. What this shows is how ungrateful these people are for the very institutions that enabled them to climb to social, political and economic heights in the first place. If it weren't for the free press we would have long since had a ruling class in America, and these men would certainly have been peasants, not aristocrats. The self-made man is a phenomenon possible only in a free society...
...subject of a full-length biography (Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, by William Baring-Gould), the center of a club (the Baker Street Irregulars) and a palpable presence wherever police congregate, from Scotland Yard to Watergate. Less than two months ago, Samuel Rosenberg probed the sources of Sir Conan Doyle's imagination in Naked Is the Best Disguise (TIME, June...