Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary Vance for giving a visa to the Shah of Iran, in spite of being warned by both the Iranians and some experts in the State Department that such action would greatly upset the present rulers of Iran. The U.S. cannot afford to have a President with such poor judgment...
Republicans were more outspoken. Said John Connally: "I am sure that Ayatullah Khomeini is pleased to hear Senator Kennedy's remarks." George Bush felt that the statement "might endanger the lives of the hostages" and raises "serious questions about Kennedy's judgment on foreign policy." Press comment was strongly unfavorable and occasionally stinging. The Washington Post: "It wasn't right, it wasn't responsible, and it wasn't smart." The Atlanta Constitution: "Kennedy, in a cynical campaign ploy against the incumbent President who cannot respond, has publicly sided with the Khomeini anarchy in Iran...
...power in 1953. Corruption, dislocations of life and profoundly disorienting social change all accompanied his rule; so did political suppression and the tortures of SAVAK, his secret police. The U.S. was inextricably implicated in the career of this potentate-Ozymandias and Faust-and shared the people's judgment of him when it came...
Florey was not appeased. He took his case to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, where it is awaiting judgment. But on the way to St. Louis the suit acquired a major new supporter. The American Civil Liberties Union, national Jewish organizations and the Unitarian Universalists were joined last June by Lawyer William P. Thompson, chief executive of the 2.6 million-member United Presbyterian Church and former president of the National Council of Churches. The Presbyterian brief seeks to banish the singing of Christmas music in public schools, not because it is too religious (Florey...
...Attorney General must investigate and call for a special prosecutor, unless he finds the charges "so unsubstan- tiated that no further investigation or prosecution is warranted." Oddly enough, the terms of that very same act prevented Civiletti from learning enough about the charges to come to such a judgment. He could not grant witnesses immunity, for instance, nor haul them before a grand jury to testify under oath. Hence, Civiletti reluctantly kept the case open. "But for the act," said a Department of Justice official, "this would never have gone be yond an Assistant U.S. Attorney...