Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman of the 75 Democratic Party new members, and yet commenting individually, I can,assure you that Hays did not mislead the 75 incoming freshmen in any manner...
...member explains his reasons for excluding blacks from his club, and the banker in Poplarville, Mississippi talks about "nigras," the reactionary trap of the Liberal as guilty populist gapes wide, trying to lull us into thinking that it is somehow "openminded" to tolerate these attitudes. Lest the good writing mislead us, it is helpful to remember that this is still journalism, and these are real people...
...procedure for playing the tapes has produced much of the courtroom quarreling. Defense counsel have consistently argued that the tapes contain irrelevant but prejudicial comments, and that transcripts provided to the jury for help in listening, but not as evidence, can mislead the jurors. The point was illustrated in a salacious way when a March 22 tape was played on which someone in the Oval Office is heard discussing a phone call with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. A voice then calls him "asshole Trudeau." The transcript omitted Trudeau's name but identified the voice as Haldeman...
...apart they have grown. As Nixon's former chief of staff, Haldeman had a great deal to do with Ehrlichman's emergence as the Administration's domestic-policy boss. Now Ehrlichman's lawyers were expected to claim that Haldeman had worked deviously with Nixon to mislead their client about some of the 45 overt acts cited by the prosecution as part of a conspiracy to "commit offenses against the United States" and to obstruct justice. Mitchell, who never really trusted the palace pair, had learned from the Watergate transcripts that they had plotted with Nixon...
...with James Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense, and William Simon, Secretary of the Treasury, the two other most powerful and visible Cabinet members. Their understanding was that the Cabinet must be calmed, must be kept in touch with reality. A careless speech or comment on fighting it out might falsely mislead Nixon about the inevitability of resignation, might freeze him into a position that would grow even more tragic. In Haig's frantic orchestration were the Republican Congressmen and the Republican Senators, men whose voices would mean something in bringing the light to Nixon...