I think he raised a lot of concern when he pardoned President Nixon.
Absolutely.
When someone says that you'll tarnish their reputation, it means that you'll make people think worse of them than they do already. Tarnishing a reputation causes people to look down on the person more and think worse of them in general.
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If besmirched is to tarnish one's reputation, I assume smirch is a reputation in good standing.
Brass has to be cleaned and polished because it can easily tarnish. The blackmailer threatened to tarnish the reputation of the candidate's wife.
16th president Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln was the president when he died.
Why did conservatives criticize president fords foreign policy?
They opposed detente
Fords Theater
John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln.
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