Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start tearing them up and rewriting." The last words were added on the evening of June 8-a scant two months before publication. Even if the scandal had come fully to light before the election-and Nixon had reacted to it by ordering a thorough housecleaning of his Administration-White maintains that the President's popular majority would not have fallen below 55%. Perhaps so, but the reader wonders whether White would have found in that result a resettling of national priorities quite so epic as the one he reads into the 60.7% landslide actually recorded...
...staff. Isabel Kouri, a letters correspondent since 1960, answers mail critical of our Watergate coverage. "A striking number of readers are worrying about the image of the presidency itself," she says. Last week she wrote to one such reader: "It seems to us that in the long run, competent, thorough, honest and aggressive news reporting is the servant of the national interest, even though in some cases it may be momentarily embarrassing to the Government." To which, amen...
Senator Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota-who, like a number of other people on the lists, has undergone an unusually thorough examination by the Internal Revenue Service in the last two years-declared mildly: "It makes you wonder whether they were doing anything else over there...
Thus there were no longer any strings to retard a free-wheeling exposition by Dean or a thorough examination by the committee, which also hopes to get John Mitchell on camera before this week is out. Dean was to first spin out his story in a 156-page statement that could take up to six hours to read. From his standpoint, the only advantage in the week's delay and the White House-inspired leaks was that his memory of some talks with the President had been refreshed, his presentation further honed. "It's an even more devastating...
...General Services Administration, the Government department that paid the money, said, "We recognize there's quite a gap between the new figure for San Clemente and the figures we gave you before. But we were giving out information piecemeal before, and now we have a very thorough search of the record." Thorough, indeed. The GSA also announced in the same breath that $626,201 in tax money had been spent for equipment and improvements at Nixon's home at Key Biscayne...