Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thus spoke Richard Nixon to some of his top aides on March 22, 1973, as he urged them not to cooperate with the many investigations of the Watergate scandal that were getting hotter. His words were tape-recorded, of course, like most conversations in the Oval Office. But this particular call for a continued cover-up was somehow omitted from a transcript of the March 22 meeting that the White House finally released -under duress-last April...
...this point, a great deal of confusion developed. It was painfully apparent that no one knew who spoke for the truckers, least of all the truckers themselves. While newspapers reported the shutdowns as over, many drivers were still holding out in truckstops, looking for greater concessions. Yet some returned to work immediately, snatching up loads untouched by the strikers...
...agreements could have been "broader." The two nations followed the customary practice of promising to cooperate more in some areas of science and technology, such as space ventures and research into forms of energy. But on peace in the Middle East, security talks in Europe, the communiqué spoke in platitudes...
...persuade people of the need to effect compromise, to restore the belief in consensus, not only inspiration will be needed but, perhaps more important, a very old political skill. Harry Truman spoke of it when he said: "You know what makes leadership? It is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do and like it." That really amounts to a redefinition of self-interest. As Barney Frank
Lewontin and Robert Mathews, teaching fellow in Anthropology, spoke at a forum on "I.Q., Race and Class" sponsored by the Committee Against Racism...