Word: turncoat
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...winner. One of the losers leaked the outline to the CIA, which considered Marchetti to be a turncoat who had developed a "sour belly" over U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia...
...exegetical (i.e., Bible) department, the board appointed the Rev. Martin H. Scharlemann, 63, an unflappable former military chaplain who is a retired brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. Scharlemann has solid academic credentials (two earned doctorates). But his appointment outraged the faculty, who consider him a turncoat: many of the professors had defended him when he was under attack as being too liberal during the 1950s...
Some of the once faceless Nixon operatives ruefully admitted their own guilty roles in the several Watergate conspiracies. Others unconvincingly denied any participation by themselves or anyone at the White House. But only the relatively powerless John Dean, tainted but nevertheless courageous in his turncoat testimony, made grave accusations of the President's participation in the coverup. His chilling tale, conveyed in a lifeless baritone, was sharply denied by such far more influential and shrewd Nixon intimates as H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell...
...have preferred former Treasury Secretary John Connally. In fact, the Texan had expected to get the nomination. But Democrats in the House and Senate mounted a vociferous lobbying campaign against Connally, saying they would not vote for the man -whom they described as a fat cat, wheeler-dealer and turncoat-under any circumstances. Even some Republicans sent word to Nixon that they would not vote to approve Connally. Declared Massachusetts Representative Silvio Conte: "I will accept anyone the President sends up except Connally." Conte went so far as to work the cloakrooms against Connally, reminding Northern Congressmen...
...cast of characters who have repeatedly lied to investigators and grand juries-as well as the public. The problem is to determine at what point, and to what extent, Dean and the other involved officials have decided to stop lying and tell the truth. Not to be a turncoat, in this sense, is to continue the deception. Magruder, for one, openly admitted his perjury but proved a highly credible witness before the Ervin committee, apparently convinced that further lying was both wrong and pointless. Dean, directly challenging the President and his top aides, would seem foolhardy indeed...