Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Johnson, "You have placed your name among the great ones in history. And I take great pride in the fact that you are my President." Concerning the war in Vietnam, he told Johnson aide Jack Valenti in April 1965, "I wish the bombing wasn't necessary, but I suspect that our people on the ground know more about that than I do." Less than a year later, however, he went so far as to say, "There is no way to make the Vietnamese war decent. There is no way of justifying sending troops to another man's country...
These warnings are reminiscent of Administration pleas in early 1975 for last-ditch aid to failing anti-Communist governments in Saigon and Phnom-Penh. In the Wall Street Journal last week, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., charged the Administration with unnecessary hyperbole and suspect logic. "I strongly doubt," he argued, "that anyone in the Soviet Union is concluding today that . . . the Senate's action on Angola gives Moscow a blank check for foreign adventures...
...ambassadors in Africa have tried to reassure moderate leaders, but doubts remain that Washington would do much to help them resist aggression by ambitious Soviet clients. Says one moderate African President: "American credibility is now suspect. If the Soviets were blatantly to try to subvert my country tomorrow, I'd think we might get sympathetic, clucking noises out of Washington, but not much else...
...latent elements in Chavez's personality" because my "sympathy for Chavez" kept me from asking Chavez "the hard questions." The only reason I can't comment, of course, is because Daly fails to mention what those "latent elements" are, or what the "hard questions" were. I strongly suspect, however, that if Daly made such a list, I could supply him with page references...
...consciousness as a prewar activist in right-wing causes. He has been jailed three times for a total of seven years. He was imprisoned by the Japanese for involvement in the 1936 assassination of former Premier Makoto Saito and again by the Americans as a Class-A war-crimes suspect (he was later released without trial). He became wealthy during World War II by supplying the Japanese navy and, by his account, "bringing home truckloads of diamonds and platinum" from territories occupied by Japan. After the war, he emerged from Sugamo prison as a kuro maku, or "black curtain...