Word: evenhandedness
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Perhaps the film's most admirable aspect is its relatively evenhanded portrayal of Stone's politics. At one point, Stone, a former communist anarchist, ridicules Nixon's pose as peacemaker: "He thinks he's Mahatma Nixon, a man in a loin cloth." But later, Stone, the self-proclaimed "counterrevolutionary," wonders...
In the 18 years that have passed since the last Soviet occupation forces left Austrian soil, that tiny gateway nation of Middle Europe had gained friends by being evenhanded to East and West and openhearted to anyone in trouble. When Hungarians fled the Russian repression of 1956, they were sheltered...
After that, Scali was content to make a brief speech, in which he asked for an evenhanded resolution condemning "violence and terror from whatever source and of whatever kind." He told Arab diplomats privately that he would veto any resolution on Israel that he considered too one-sided.
Crossroads. Whether or not Gray gives up, far more is at stake than the fate of one man. At issue is the FBI's well-deserved reputation for disregarding political considerations in its dogged pursuit of the facts upon which evenhanded justice must be based. On a more fundamental level...
Gray defended this practice on the grounds that he was just "part of the chain of command" that leads to the White House. That is an appallingly limited vision of the role of the FBI, which under Hoover had proudly maintained its independence from eight Presidents and served as a...