Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week, Democratic and Republican leaders alike tried to quell rank-and-file congressional demands that Nixon step down and save the nation the trauma of impeachment and trial. Senate Democratic Whip Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia warned that a forced resignation would polarize the nation. "A significant portion of our citizens would feel that the President had been driven from office by his political enemies," he said. "The question of guilt or innocence would never be fully resolved." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield declared that "resignation is not the answer." House Speaker Carl Albert advised that...
...find drew an admission from the White House last week that two typists had independently transcribed the same portion of a meeting between the President (P) and Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen (HP) on April 16, 1973. The overlap slipped by, and the two versions appeared in tandem in the published transcript as separate conversations. The error was not caught sooner because the versions differ so markedly, underscoring the House Judiciary Committee's argument that only the tapes will suffice as evidence in its impeachment inquiry. Comparisons of parts of the two versions...
...President then turns the conversation to how Dean could be kept from telling the prosecutors too much. In a potentially damaging portion of the transcript, the President suggests that Ehrlichman hint to Dean that only Nixon can pardon him. For his part, Ehrlichman implies that a plan is needed to ensure that the testimony of Dean and others does not involve the President. The crucial segments...
...three years after the taping began, Khrushchev's associates in the memoir project decided that it was time to act. Little, Brown and Time Inc. acquired the right to publish the first portion of the memoirs. In an introduction written for Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament, TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, who was chief of the TIME-LIFE bureau in Moscow from 1968 until 1970, notes that: "Because these were the unsanctioned words of a deposed leader, the transcripts of the tapes were handled in much the same way as novels, poetry, and other 'underground' Soviet...
About a year ago, Henry Kissinger admitted, "I am not interested in, nor do I know anything about, the southern portion of the world from the Pyrenees on down." Kissinger's cavalier ignorance--feigned or real--is shared by most of his fellow-citizens, who have never been able to decide whether they are more bored by Canada or South America. The colonial origins of the United States are still reflected in a cultural inferiority complex that carries over into politics. A cabinet reshuffle in a western European democracy gets more attention in the press than a coup d'etat...