Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...They pussyfoot around all summer, then come here and expect to get into shape under the naked eye of the human coach, then blame him for their failures," he began in his Irish brogue. "John Yovicsin is as fine a coach as any," he added. "It's the players themselves that are to blame. They're a bunch of pussyfooters...
...have gone beyond the point where social unrest and violence can be so used. It is not enough merely to denounce violence-everyone denounces it. There is no point in uttering angry words however justified -America is already afflicted by too much anger. It would be easy, indeed, to blame the disturbance at San Jose and others like it on a climate of permissiveness created by my political opponents. Even if I did so successfully, however, the success would be only political and short-run. The long-run effect would be to perpetuate the divisions and the animosities that trouble...
...have your vote. You have faith in this great country. Use that vote and that faith to help this Administration turn the nation away from hatred, chaos and division, away from fixing blame for problems and toward solving them...
UNFORTUNATELY, Mr. Nixon is not one to admit readily his own shortcomings. He will sit back and pout for a while, decide he was right all along, and blame any Republican setbacks on failure to present the message strongly enough. Such a typical five-year-old's reaction to setbacks is not out of the realm of possibility for our President. The man who tearfully blamed his 1962 defeat on the media can be expected to do the same in 1970. From him, we can expect increased attacks on the media, more attempts at Administration-imposed censorship, and tighter government...
...Communist camp is to withdraw or withhold American capital and industry from Chile at this time. I hope we will not react in a manner that will make it imperative for Chile to seek aid from other (perhaps Communist) nations. If we do, we have no one to blame but ourselves. American industry may lose some of its grip on Chile's economy, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Economic interests have too often been our sole concern in Latin American countries anyway...