Word: forthright
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Jacobsen's clear, forthright testimony did not seem to shake John Connally, who afterward smiled, squeezed hands and moved easily through the crowd outside the court. Which man's confidence was truly justified may be revealed as Jacobsen faces cross-examination this week from fabled, relentless Defense Counsel Williams. Surely he will raise the question of why his client, a man worth millions, would jeopardize his political future for $10,000. And Connally may have something to say about that when he takes the stand, probably next week...
...outside Washington, Butterfield has found that his forthright revelation about the tapes has created quite a different reaction. On trips, Butterfield is constantly sought out by people who want to congratulate him for his hon esty and candor. In Los Angeles, one woman asked him if he would shake her son's hand. "His father was killed in Viet Nam," she said. "You're the kind of man he would want his son to grow...
...certainly discouraging that students should still be organizing freedom marches 15 years after the first ones shook the United States, five years after black people's struggle for full equality in this country seemed to have moved beyond the defensive measures of the early '60s to a forthright attack on the system that denied them their freedom. But in another sense the fact that Saturday's march won't be the first of its kind is encouraging, for experience shows that it can work. When Southern school systems were forced to accept racial integration, schoolchildren--especially black school children--were...
There was a sacramental air about it, a sense of ritual drama. Gerald Ford had just returned to the White House from Sunday morning services, fresh from partaking of the cup of Holy Communion at the historic St. John's Episcopal Church. He spoke with the same earnest, forthright piety that had moved many listeners in his Inaugural Address a month before. This time the phrases somehow seemed more sonorous: "To do what is right as God gives me to see the right ... to uphold our laws with the help of God." He had searched his conscience, the President said...
...that extraordinary exchange-unthinkable at a presidential press conference in preWatergate days-Gerald Ford last week effectively summed up the homespun precepts that will guide his Administration. "I will be as candid and as forthright as I possibly can," he promised. "I will expect any individuals in my Administration to be exactly the same. There will be no tightly controlled operation of the White House staff." He firmly added: "I will make the decisions and take the blame for them or whatever benefit might be the case...