Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Frost interviews last spring, emphasizes the "humanitarian" calculations that entered into the President's decision to embark on the coverup. In retrospect, he says, it becomes easy to think that immediately after the events of June 17, 1972, Nixon should have said "O.K., let's get the truth out, everybody walk the plank." "There wouldn't have been much damage," Price says, "even if John Mitchell were involved. On the other hand, in human terms, I doubt if he could have done that." Price adds that he feels certain that Nixon would have won re-election, even...
...tapes, appears to be the best description of White House Watergate "dynamics," according to Price's view. Price's analysis seems to demonstrate that most Nixon aides--even those such as Price who were not involved in the coverup--were not motivated by a desire to get the truth...
...things, partly because of this question of if you're called on to testify," Price says. Throughout the White House, you had individuals "not knowing what various people's liabilities might be, imagining as a possibility the worst as well as the best, wondering what the truth was. You did have a lot of people--even the ones who were caught up in it--genuinely seeing things differently and assessing things differently," Price says...
...misguided way the Administration had shaped up the program in the first place. In pledging to produce a National Energy Plan within 90 days of his Inauguration, and then turning the task into a semisecret crash project by a dozen staffers under Schlesinger, Carter overlooked an old truth: in Washington, people are more likely to support an idea if they have been able to help formulate it. In fact, the Administration had attempted to short-circuit opposition to many of its proposals by writing a variety of compromise features into the plan. But since none of the special interests that...
...taken in. It has been trying to keep tabs on Soviet agriculture with eye-in-the-sky photo satellites, and its findings have been reasonably accurate in the past. But this time the photo interpretations went awry, because of what the agency calls bad 'ground truth" data-information from the observers escorted by the Russians...