Word: strives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Nixon's forced removal from office was a unique and humiliating punishment. But it was also based on the proposition that no man is above the law and that justice must at least strive for equal treatment of all those who break the law. Compassion might dictate immunity from prosecution for Nixon. But would it be just to permit him to go untried while some two dozen of his agents have already paid the penalty of conviction or face trial for crimes committed in his behalf? If all were pardoned in a grand gesture of healing, what...
...discharge those duties and meet those responsibilities that were entrusted to me. Sometimes I have succeeded. And sometimes I have failed. But always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt said about the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows...
...presidency that is in jeopardy from us. We would strive to strengthen and protect the presidency. But if there be no accountability, another President will feel free to do as he chooses. But the next time, there may be no watchman in the night...
...depressing." Her eldest son died in the war, and she survived two husbands. In recent years, the crippled old lady maneuvered her electric cart along Sark's unpaved roads, greeting every islander by name. "So long as my life may be extended," she said, "I shall strive to maintain this little feudal paradise, with all its traditions, laws and customs, as an oasis of quiet and rest...
...excised passage also contains the President's instruction to his staff that they strive to block the investigation by stonewalling or by invoking the Fifth Amendment, if necessary. The line is reminiscent of a suggestion that the President offered on March 21, 1973, when his aides were discussing the possibility of appearing before a federal grand jury: "But you can say, 'I don't remember.' " (In the Judiciary Committee version: "Just be damned sure you say, 'I don't . . . remember...