Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Nixon has already yielded some 700 documents and 19 tapes, he continued to insist in Houston that to give up any more would "weaken the presidency of the United States" and could even lead to "the destruction of the office of the President." His audience, consisting mainly of prosperous radio-and television-station owners and managers, applauded both his sharp replies and some of the tougher questions posed by broadcast newsmen. Firmly and aggressively in command of the situation, Nixon insisted that he was not trying to hide anything; he simply wanted to ensure that no future President would...
...deeply aware, of course, that in recent weeks Richard Nixon has found several occasions to I say that he must defend the office of the President, and that he should not resign because that would weaken the office. But precisely the opposite is the case. As it now stands, the office of the President is in danger of succumbing to the death of a thousand cuts. The only way to save it is for the President to resign, leaving the office free to defend itself with a new incumbent...
There was a savage logic behind the use of anti-personnel weapons. The men in Washington who planned this war knew that the National Liberation Front and North Vietnam had only limited medical facilities and that widespread injuries, instead of deaths, would severely tax those facilities and weaken the Vietnamese war effort. So they issued crisp orders which set in motion the farm wives and the bomber pilots. And more small boys clutched shredded bodies and blinded eyes and screamed in agony...
...memory of the aborted unborn, gathered to protest the legality of such operations. Outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, a crowd demonstrated against the Roman Catholic Church's position, which holds that abortion is a sin. In a display of bad taste that could only weaken their case, the demonstrators crowned a woman "Pope," who issued a mocking benediction to the crowd that had assembled...
...depends much less on the Arabs' oil than the Europeans and Japanese do. As oil becomes scarcer and costlier, their industries stand to be hit painfully, and they will have to spend proportionately more than the U.S. for imported petroleum. These factors will damage their payments balances and weaken their currencies. As foreign currencies decline, the dollar should become relatively stronger. Alan Murray, a vice president of New York's First National City Bank, predicts that the dollar will float up another 10% next year...