Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...well knew, the Defense Secretary had already scheduled a press conference on Stealth two days later. The timing had been carefully worked out by Brown's press officer, Thomas Ross, to precede-and take some of the sting out of-release of a report about what had gone wrong with the aborted April mission to rescue the hostages in Iran...
...that he had no choice. Once widely publicized leaks about Stealth began appearing, he argued, it made sense to disclose as much as he could in order to create a "firebreak" that would contain further public discussion. To deny the story, as SAC Commander Ellis urged, would be wrong, Brown later told a House subcommittee probing the affair: "As the nation learned to its bitter regret in the Watergate era, a policy of deceiving the public undermines the basic link of trust between the Government and the people...
...strongly defended Hamilton Jordan against similar drug charges last year, they were unwilling to make the same stand for Kraft, whose flamboyant life-style has brought him notoriety in Washington. In fact, when Jordan was under investigation, his friends intimated that the Justice Department was going after the wrong...
Addressing contemporary ambivalences, confusions, culture heroes, and false panaceas these essays are heated by the intensity of one who has wrested truth and value out of confusion, wrong-headedness, and sham...
...researchers are not only uncertain if all their planning helps anyone, but they are also hesitant to describe the criteria for a truly successful transition. "You can evaluate it procedurally, but even if that looks good, something can go wrong," he adds. "The Kennedy transition seemed successful in 1960-61, but look what directly followed that: the Bay of Pigs." Unlike Moore, who declines to discuss the Carter experience in 1976, May points out the "procedural flaw" made in trying to separate officially Watson's staff from Jordan's. Remembering and explaining such as lesson in this election...