Word: stupid
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...buttons said on and off, forward and backward. I caught on to that fairly fast. I don't think I'm so stupid as to erase what's on a tape...
Precisely because her loyalty to her boss has never been questioned and she never makes stupid errors, Rose Mary Woods was deeply enmeshed last week in the Watergate toils that have touched the lives of so many who tied their careers to Richard Nixon's political fate. The President's personal and personable secretary sat uncomfortably in a Washington federal courtroom and told a confused and tangled story of how she had, after all, made "a terrible mistake." Contrary to her testimony of Nov. 8, she said that she apparently had pushed the wrong button on a recorder and erased...
Hindsight can be a burden as well as a benefit, and we must beware of viewing 1972 with a hindsight that makes the Nixon landslide seem inevitable and the Nixon initiation of Watergate seem improbable. For it is a myth that Watergate was stupid because it was unnecessary. It was stupid because it was wrong. But understandably, no one has sought to raise in the President's defense the argument that he would decline a course of action simply because it was wrong...
Perhaps the most universally credited myth is that Watergate was stupid because it was unnecessary. Presumably this is intended as an indirect but effective defense of Mr. Nixon. After all, we are asked, would a campaign so far ahead in the polls perpetrate or permit a burglary of the Democratic National Committee? The President himself has told us not to think that he was that dumb. (A reassurance followed recently by another, when for the first time in history, a president of the United States felt compelled to announce to the nation: "I'm no crook." Mr. Nixon's rhetoric...
Freshmen women in general have a tough time being taken seriously, but an underclass woman with a Southern accent is in real trouble. Many people consider her to be stupid, per se. The assumption is that she was admitted only to satisfy Radcliffe's desire for diversity and geographical distribution. Honeyed tones and high...