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...press conference the day after the settlement, Richardson indicated that President Nixon had known more about the affair than he had let on. In his public statements, the President had said that he could vouch for Agnew's conduct after becoming Vice President. But Richardson said that Nixon early on had been told about the developing evidence that Agnew had received money while Vice President...
...Winner Lose All, tend to heap benefits where there is clearly doubt and portray their man as an unworldly underdog, victimized by the Establishment. Eames' assertion that Cook reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908, is not even borne out by Cook himself, who would not vouch for the accuracy of his instrument readings beyond a "reasonable certainty." It is also reasonably certain that Peary's friends, who included newspaper executives, took special care and relish in destroying Cook. For all his shadiness, he still cuts a heroic figure. Unfortunately, the fullness of his personality is flattened...
...focusing on such issues as health care and public education, are the most undefined and nebulous part of the Institute since nothing--not even a paper--is required from the discussions to justify the existence of the seminar or the funds it uses. Only the minutes of the meetings vouch for their existence...
...their roles as spies and traitors of national liberation movements. The last thing the Angolan resistance movement needs now is a thriving coopted native elite. More than the guns of the Portuguese, such a group could set the movement back several decades. Almost any student of Portuguese colonialism will vouch for the fact that the Portuguese are past masters of the art of divide and rule. Indeed, unlike their French, British and Dutch counterparts, they have indicated a willingness to eschew notions of racial purity in order to create buffer segments of racially mixed native middle class groups...
Having been a friend of Mr. Edleman's in college, I can vouch for the fact that he was a professional actor when Nichols cast him and, like so many other thespians (myself included, at one time), drove a cab to make ends meet...