Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deliberately or otherwise, your splendid piece on my book [Nov. 16] reversed the title. I do not blame you, though. It took much hesitation to decide on Coexistence & Commerce rather than Commerce & Coexistence. My foreign publishers wisely skirted the issue. After toying with The Tender Sword, they settled on Weapons of Peace, which (don't you agree?) by any other name are just as tender...
...have the firmer ties with the state organizations. White House domination makes the larger party organization atrophy, as occurred in the Johnson Administration. Reported TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo: "The point was made that the White House blew it this year on the law-and-order issue by trying to blame the Democrats so heavyhandedly that it boomeranged." Said one participant afterward: "Looking toward '72, I can't see anything to cheer about. Nobody there was pleased about what happened on Nov. 3 -or if they were, they kept quiet about...
...point, Stalin called in Soviet Defense Commissar Kliment Voroshilov for a dressing down. Voroshilov angrily retorted: "You have yourself to blame for all this! You're the one that had our best generals killed!" With that, Khrushchev recalls, the Defense Commissar "picked up a platter with a boiled suckling pig on it and smashed it on the table." The 1939-40 "Winter War" cost about 1,000,000 Soviet lives, says Khrushchev, and ended in a "moral defeat" for Stalin, though the Finns agreed to pull back about seven miles...
This could become a political liability for Nixon in 1972-if he allows the people to connect his obstinate refusal to negotiate with the continued captivity of the POW's. The solution is simple: put the blame on Hanoi...
Thus Nixon must make certain that he will receive no blame when the prisoners do not return; he does this by encouraging the American people to point the finger of blame at the North and pulling dramatic surprises like last week's "search and rescue" mission...