"Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is."
Or why "It's like déjà vu all over again.
"stories are being run that are based on hearsay, innuendo, guilt by association. . ''
By the time the story had grown to the point where the size of it dawned on us, we had already waded deeply into its stream. Once I found myself in the deepest water in the middle of the current, there was no going back.
By Katharine Graham
Tuesday, January 28, 1997; Page D01
This article was excerpted from the 1997 book "Personal History" by Katharine Graham, chairman of the executive committee and former publisher of The Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/graham.htm
Mr. Ziegler dismissed the 1972 break-in at Democratic national headquarters as a ''third-rate burglary'' and attacked The Washington Post's coverage of the case as ''shabby journalism'' and ''character assassination.''
But on April 17, 1973, Nixon stunned reporters by saying that he had conducted an investigation that raised the prospect of involvement by White House officials.
Eventually Mr. Ziegler replied: ''The president refers to the fact that there is new material; therefore, this is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.''
On May 1, 1973, the day after H. R. Haldeman, the White House chief of staff, and John D. Ehrlichman, the chief domestic policy adviser, resigned over Watergate, Mr. Ziegler was asked if he would apologize to The Washington Post.
He replied: ''I think we would all have to say, and I would be, I think, remiss if I did not say, that mistakes were made during this period in terms of comments that were made, perhaps. I would say that I was overenthusiastic at the time in my comments about The Post, particularly if you look at it in the context of the developments that have taken place. In thinking of it at this point in time, yes, I would apologize to The Post. . . . When we're wrong, we're wrong.''
When he started to add, ''But . . .'' a reporter called out, ''Don't take it back, Ron!''
In 1974, a statement by Mr. Ziegler on the safeguarding of the White House tapes won an award from the Committee on Public Doublespeak of the National Council of Teachers of English.
He said: ''I would feel that most of the conversations that took place in those areas of the White House that did have the recording system would, in almost their entirety, be in existence, but the special prosecutor, the court, and, I think, the American people are sufficiently familiar with the recording system to know where the recording devices existed, and to know the situation in terms of the recording process, but I feel, although the process has not been undertaken yet in preparation of the material to abide by the court decision, really, what the answer to that question is.''
From the................ The Nondenial Denier.... NY times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/weekinreview/the-nation-the-nondenial-denier.html
Now about this whole email/server thing
anyone else smell something? Both articles are worth reading in their entirety but you get the picture
Not CREEP .. Committee to Reelect the President but
The Committee to reelect the Person who should have been president.
