Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handle the deteriorating situation, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst on April 15, 1973, advised Nixon: "One aspect of this thing which you can always take and that is, as the President of the United States, your job is to enforce the law." Whether as a public relations tactic, as Nixon and his men seemed to view most things, or as his sworn duty, it was surely advice that he ought to have taken...
Both Committee Chairman Sam Ervin and Vice Chairman Howard Baker, a Republican, said that they have faith in Dean's credibility. Special Prosecutor Jaworski continues to count Dean a key witness in the Watergate trials. In a way, the White House blitz on Dean seemed either a diversionary tactic or mere vindictiveness. Now that the evidence of the tapes is available, Dean's testimony is far less vital or relevant...
...action began. The picketers complied, Moreira said, but continued to picket the entrance. He said only a few trucks entered during the rest of the morning. The printers organized the mass picketing because they "want the University to know we can hit them hard," Moreira said. He said this tactic will be used in the future at different points on campus...
...himself. The corporation, refusing to address itself to the museum issue, has given Cambridge citizens a clear choice: either you are a friend of the JFK memorial or you are one of its enemies; you have to be for it or against it. This is a devisive and deceptive tactic...
Bunting employs the principal tactic of class war, the ambush. His unsuspecting victim is an American named Mark Adams, a member of that amorphous elite loosely known as the Eastern establishment. A graduate of Princeton circa 1960 and a holder of a gentlemanly undistinguished degree from Cambridge, Adams has also served in Viet Nam as an Army officer with a certain detached distaste. Both he and his wife Marjorie, a diplomat's daughter from north-central New Jersey's horsy country, wear their status with the proper casual confidence. For Adams, at least, this confidence is rudely shaken...