Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those documents also tended to undercut the emerging White House attempts to portray Ehrlichman and Haldeman as acting on Watergate only in response to the President's concern over security, while lesser aides became over-zealous about political considerations. Pretrial depositions by Ehrlichman and Haldeman in a Democratic civil suit over the Watergate activities were released last week, and in sum they pointed to former Attorney General John Mitchell and Counsel Dean as the high officials most deeply involved...
...There is going to be a severe backlash against the sordid press McCarthyism and intellectual punksterism of those who sought so mindlessly to tear down a great President, a great office and a great nation." The Dallas Morning News chided "zealous communicators hot on the trail of Watergate" for ignoring the principle that innocence must be presumed until guilt is proved...
Even many Nixon critics are willing to believe that the President did not know in advance about the political-disruption campaign and the plans to bug the Democratic headquarters. But at the very least he created an atmosphere in the White House that led zealous aides to believe that they could go beyond the bounds of propriety...
...Watergate has already destroyed a White House palace guard that "sheltered" the President from Congress, from many high officials of his own Administration and from many regions of public opinion. It is possible that President Nixon will try to reconstruct another palace guard as arrogant, zealous and narrow as the one built by the banished Haldeman and Ehrlichman. They would be difficult to match, however, and the President's first moves this week suggest that he will now try for a somewhat more loose and relaxed staff around him. This would be good for Nixon and for the country...
Uncommon Cash. There was a conflict of a different kind when another Williams client, Teamsters Union President Frank Fitzsimmons, voiced dismay over Williams' zealous prosecution of the Democrats' case. Williams told him, "Back in the '40s, our other clients attempted to force us to drop the Teamsters as a client, and we made a rule that no client could influence our work for others. That rule was established for your benefit then, and it applies to you now." Fitzsimmons was unmollified, and he pulled the Teamsters account, which is worth more than $100,000 a year...