Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Ferraro announced that his tax returns would not be made public, as she had promised earlier. "The hesitance to release her husband's tax returns," wrote George F. Will in his syndicated column, "may mean he has not paid much in taxes." Indeed that had been the common suspicion. On an ABC news program, This Week with David Brinkley, Ferraro said her husband had relented because "people were jumping to the most outrageous conclusions on a lot of things." Columnist Will, an interviewer on the program, asked if the disclosures would show that her family had paid its fair...
...investigative interest subsides, the G.O.P. may try to revive it. As Ferraro knows well, when national figures come under suspicion, the public and press fasten on to the reputed rascals and do not easily let go. There can be a rather voyeuristic zeal about such searches for official wrongdoing, and prosecutory momentum, once begun, is difficult to slow. Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's budget director, was forced to leave office, tried and found guilty of nothing. So great is the power of stigma, however, that when Mondale tried to make him his campaign director, Lance was forced to step down...
...that way too. In the end he proved to be right, but only after prolonged anxiety. For all the aplomb that she demonstrated at her press conference, Ferraro had also shown her inexperience as a national candidate; she seemed initially to have little idea of how much doubt and suspicion her husband's secrecy had aroused, and of how badly it was hurting the Democratic campaign...
Clearly, the release of the couple's individual tax returns squelched any suspicion that Zaccaro might have been trying to hide embarrassingly small payments to Uncle Sam. Over the past five years, he and his wife paid more than the average person does in their respective tax brackets, according to IRS statistics. This was true of Ferraro in each of the five years in which they filed separately. It was true of Zaccaro, whose income varied more sharply from year to year, in three of the five years. By filing separately, they paid about $6,000 more over...
...populist conservatives, the old foreign policy elite is the same bunch that sold out to Stalin at Yalta, "lost China" and naively adopted Henry Kissinger's vision of detente. Bush was even once a member of the Trilateral Commission, an Establishment foreign policy organization regarded with deep suspicion by the conspiracy theorists of the far right. Another leading exemplar of the "preppie" group is Rhode Island Senator John Chafee, a former Secretary of the Navy...