Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trust that my husband, the doctor, will not be too surprised to find that the signature below is that of his wife...
PORTLAND, ORE.: Because this city (pop. 360,000) has had no taint of local political scandal in 15 years, Watergate is all the harder for Portlanders to comprehend. By and large, they trust their officeholders. Even the people who are ready to believe the worst about Watergate commonly add a cautionary note: "But I don't believe this means that all politicians are crooked." Probably the hardest hit emotionally are the Republicans. Never truly comfortable with Nixon, preferring the Nelson Rockefeller brand of Republicanism, they nonetheless supported the President. Now they feel that their trust has been violated...
Should President Nixon resign? If the President of the United States lied to the American people, then the question is: Can you trust him? Impeachment would come up. And this country is in too much trouble internationally to have such a gigantic demonstration of distrust in its leaders. I'm convinced he knew nothing at the inception [of the Watergate affair]. But the coverup...
...veteran of service with the World War II National Defense Mediation Board, Cox left Government to join the Harvard faculty in 1945. He is a specialist in labor legislation and was a member of John F. Kennedy's brain trust in the campaign against Richard Nixon. Kennedy appointed him Solicitor General in 1961; he resigned in 1965 to return to Harvard. Among his law-school pupils in the '40s: Elliot Richardson and Ervin Committee Counsel Samuel Dash...
...Angeles voters believe the campaign oratory that has been swirling around their heads, their next mayor will be, no matter who wins next week's election, an incompetent, a liar, an as sociate of criminals and a betrayer of the public trust. After a series of "debates" between incumbent Mayor Sam Yorty, 63, and black City Councilman and Ex-Cop Thomas Bradley, 55, the Los Angeles Times complained in disgust: "Slashing personal attacks apparently win votes. Well, that is what passes for politics in Los Angeles...