Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neill apparently misunderstood Moore's words as meaning that Griffin was not going to be fired. "He said it can't happen," O'Neill later told a friend. "He didn't tell me the truth." When Griffin was indeed fired the next day, O'Neill was deeply outraged. He declared publicly that both he and his friend had been "treated shabbily." As for Moore, O'Neill said, he would no longer be welcome in the Speaker's office-an extraordinary blow to the relations between two branches of Government...
...truth of the matter may never emerge. Under questioning by committee members, Byers has stuck by the informant's account of the $50,000 bounty on King. It is not clear whether he also confirmed that the money was paid to Ray. The committee plans to administer a lie-detector test to Ray about the tale; he will be removed from jail to testify at the hearings. But Kauffmann and Sutherland have both died, and their widows insist that their husbands had nothing to do with the murder of the civil rights leader...
Says Walker of lobbying: "There is always a pressure point somewhere, if you search hard enough. You've also got to be willing to window-dress. How can you be against 'truth in lending' or 'freedom of information...
...each show, Springsteen will drop to one knee in front of the mike and yell with the sort of mock melodrama that cloaks an almost literal truth, "I'm just a prisoner . . . of rock 'n' roll!" In the audience, his fellow lifers laugh and cheer, delirious inmates in the same cell. Of all those prisoners, though, only the Boss holds...
...Time for Truth, Simon...