Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House scheme on the ground that it might create "a personal police force" within IRS. His successor, Johnnie M. Walters, protested late in 1972 that another White House proposal would have been "disastrous for IRS and for the Administration and would make the Watergate affair look like a Sunday-school picnic." Obviously out of favor with the President, both commissioners finally quit...
...kind of bridge between high society and the real world. Instead of rejecting Daisy outright, as all of her uppity friends do, she tries to save the young girl's precariously balanced reputation. Bogdanovich turns this worldy-wise matron into a more raw, sensual character with hints of an affair just ending between her and Winterbourne. Admittedly, Eileen Brennan's performance as the feline Mrs. Walker is very convincing. However, to pull it off completely, the film has to enlarge another character from the book into Mrs. Walker's present lover. This fellow that throws Winterbourne knowing glances about...
...with no connection with the University, I am corresponding more in curiosity than in outrage. Is there anyone at Harvard--a student, a faculty member, an administrator or an alumnus--who is even slightly troubled by this affair? If there is such a person, perhaps he should have the courage to speak up. Seth Steir
...more startling disclosures is that Nixon foresaw a need to conceal information about the Watergate affair just 13 days after the June 17 breakin. At a meeting with Haldeman and Mitchell, which was called to discuss Mitchell's resignation as Nixon's campaign director, this dialogue took place...
...committee's special report on Bebe Rebozo's expenditures was not particularly important for the amounts of money involved. Compared with the abuses of power already documented in the Watergate affair, for example, the allegation that Rebozo spent $4,562.38 in leftover campaign funds for earrings for Pat Nixon would not ordinarily have been of much consequence. But it was perceived as a vivid symbol, calling immediately to mind a much younger Richard Nixon who bragged on television that his wife wore only a "respectable Republican cloth coat." Strategically, the allegation was also important to investigators because...