Word: wick
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Reading the morning paper, more often than not, offers further examples of the President's particular brand of language. Last week, for example, the President defended the conduct of the chief of the United States Information Agency, Charles Wick...
...think that Charles Wick is a dishonorable man in any way. I can understand his forgetting sometimes when he was talking to people particularly that he knew, "[Wick's taping] was different... [from someone]" trying to keep a record on other people's conversations what he was actually trying to do was to immediately transcribe so that he could provide the suggestions that were being discussed to the people that would have to implement them...
...this quotation is pieced together, but if one remembers the facts of the matter it is embarrassing to figure out what the President is actually saying. What, for example, does Reagan mean when he says. "I don't think Charles Wick is a dishonorable man in any way?" If "dishonorable" means anything it means lying and Mr. Wick lied several times when he told reporters early in the investigation of his taping that he had never taped without permission. The issue is not "forgetting"; one does not forget taping a conversation the way one forgets an address. And finally, what...
...Charles Wick, director of the United States Information Agency, is guilty of several rather damning actions, few of them illegal but most of them certainly unethical. First and perhaps most depressing from the man who runs the Voice of America. Wick lied to New York Times reporter Jane Perlez and columnist William Safire when they questioned him about his taping activities. Although Wick had been taping conversations for some time and may well have carried about a tape device for use when away from the office, he denied to Safire and Perlez that he had ever taped without the consent...
Indeed, the only one who is not displeased by the USIA chief's conduct is the President, who last week called Wick "honorable," and pledged to let him "continue" in his post. Perhaps Wick's previous Wattian statement this summer that the reason Margaret Thatcher opposed the Grenada invasion was that she was a "woman" should have clued the President earlier on that another staff member was falling by the wayside. Perhaps the USIA chief's alleged summer redecoration of his house with public funds should have alerted Mr. Reagan that Wick was spluttering. Let us at least hope that...