Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When society uses technology in such a way that the individual's personality is not numbed, then he will feel responsibility for something beyond his own selfish interests. Mr. Jefferson's vantage point should allow him to see that Nixon is not to blame...
...Relief. In some respects, it was a brilliantly crafted speech, straightforward sounding and without the self-pity of last April's performance. It was carefully balanced between shouldering the blame and pushing it off on others, between condemning Watergate and excusing it, between criticizing the cover-up and justifying it on security grounds...
...accepted overall responsibility but also managed to imply that he was not to blame for being misinformed-and misinformed largely by one man, John Dean. He reaffirmed his desire to get at the truth and yet complained that the investigators of the scandal were mired in the past and determined to implicate the President even if it meant damaging the country. "If you want the mandate you gave this Administration to be carried out," the President declared, "then I ask for your help to ensure that those who would exploit Watergate in order to keep us from doing what...
...pretty weary of having the finger of accusation pointed at our President for being the cause of the rampant inflation we are experiencing today [July 30]. I believe it is high time that the blame for our domestic problems be placed where it belongs -not on any one man but on the people of this country. Blame the politicians who are willing to sit and do nothing constructive, just point a finger and say shame. Blame the industrial men who worship profit only -responsibility to the consumer and a quality product be hanged-and contrive shortages to further their...
...congressional critics, the President's message appeared to be an attempt to shift to Congress the blame and responsibility if the Cambodian government of President Lon Nol should fall to the Khmer rebel forces some time after Aug. 15 (see THE WORLD). Many Congressmen were also upset about the Administration's recently revealed secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969 and 1970 (TIME, July 30). General Earle G. Wheeler, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, defended the policy before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, arguing: "Secrecy has been in vogue in the military for centuries...