Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disconcertingly ambivalent. Nixon resorted to an odd and habitual rhetorical device, explaining?as he often has done in his past speeches on Viet Nam?that he was rejecting "the easiest course" and pursuing the more difficult one. In this case, "the easiest course would be for me to blame those to whom I delegated the responsibility to run the campaign." Placing the entire blame on subordinates, however, would not have been the easier course?because it would not have washed. To avoid accepting responsibility for the actions of so many men acting in his name would have been impossible...
Nevertheless, Nixon proceeded, in effect, to blame others by distancing himself from their activities. He had been
...last American proconsul is leaving Saigon. It will be years before his record can be properly assessed. For much of his tour, he was undisputed commander of both U.S. military and diplomatic-political activities in Viet Nam. As such, he presumably will have to bear some of the blame for the policy decisions that turned Viet Nam into an international tragedy...
...THAT PRESIDENT NIXON has accepted responsibility -- but not blame --for the Watergate affair, he has adopted a see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil attitude. He implores the American people to overlook a few mindless campaign shenanigans, so he can return to the sanctity of the Oval Office, unbowed and untarnished...
Several spokesmen in the Radcliffe Fund office said yesterday that the current drive is lagging decidedly behind last year's in student participation, but did not blame the lag on ambivalence toward Radcliffe's present status...