flub-up

“It was just a flub-up,” Young said, adding: “It’s like I’m looking dead at it, the ball is coming down, and I just completely lost it. I got a little blurry. It was like I didn’t even see it. I don’t know what happened. But there’s no excuse — big mistake.”

He was fired from the C.R.P. because of the Watergate flub-up, ostensibly for refusing to answer the FBI's questions, and some unkind words have been leaking out of the Administration about the onetime FBI agent.