Word: understood
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...Understood. Moreover, Krogh's description of Dean's comments to him on March 20 neatly coincides with a talk that Dean told the Senate committee he had held with another White House aide, Richard Moore, on that same day. Claimed Dean: "I told him that I really didn't think the President understood all the facts involved in the Watergate and particularly the implication of those facts...
...addition to its internal debates, Syria was getting conflicting advice from other countries. Visiting Damascus last week in the course of an oil-hunting, arms-dealing swing through Arab countries, French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert told Syrian officials that he "understood" their positions. Jobert cautioned them against depending on "foreign efforts" to obtain a settlement. Palestinian guerrillas were also vocal in urging Syria not to settle. Their newspaper Falastin al-Thawra called for Arab solidarity against Israel and said, "Victory will be the lot of those who are long-winded and capable of enduring...
Devaluation and the resulting imported inflation can be understood as a delayed tax on the American people to support Nguyen van Thieu...
...easily employed. It is clear enough that a President can be impeached for treason or bribery, but what is to be made of "other high Crimes and Misdemeanors"? The phrase was a compromise arrived at by the founding fathers after considerable debate, but it was only dimly understood then-or since. Not long after the phrase was incorporated into the U.S. Constitution, the British, who invented it to encompass both criminal acts and behavior that tended to undermine a government's integrity, discarded it. The impeachment provision led an exasperated Tocqueville to complain: "Nothing can be more alarming than...
...line against further advances by the left, but to carry the battle over to the offensive." Then I got it. The battle was being waged by the offensive. It wasn't as good as a Gerald Ford interview, but it did have a few nice touches. Now that I understood it, I decided to read their report. They have some dynamic plans for 1974. The best was their new affiliate, "Public Monitor," a program designed to "maintain surveillance of the liberal bureaucrats ..." I think that means that they're going to let us watch Teddy take a shave...