Word: washings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Honey Fritz's move should start a widespread political trend, that grows to include all those other presidential contenders whose solution to impending nuclear war or Chrysler's laying off 100,000 workers is a plea for renewed trust in the American system. Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), the would-be Democratic front-runner, could set an example in this movement much finer than he has in the last few years, with ceaseless calls for shoring up the "defense" system, not to mention the Saigon government. And President Ford, Jackson's Republican counterpart, could help achieve his expressed desire...
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) were among the speakers at the rally...
Much of the dialogue reads like a litany of liberation. Lines like "Why can't you be like other mothers" and "Don't go to college--get a job as a clerk, you'll meet a nice man..." wash over us with the indistinct familiarity of a TV ad we've heard a hundred times. It is obvious why this is not good theater: the characters are merely pasteboard stand-ins for the absent playwright. And while it may be less obvious, it is equally true that neither is this good politics. Rather than bring us closer to the truth...
...said Ford's original suggestion of a pardon for all Watergate offenders was "logical" because such a pardon would specify offenses. However, he said the American people would not accept such a broad measure to "wash Watergate down the drain...