Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...documents by Cox had been victorious on two court levels-and likely would succeed again. Nor could Nixon afford to risk another public explosion by firing Jaworski, as he had Cox. The President apparently is gambling on the White House belief that the public, weary of Watergate, wants the affair swiftly resolved. Despite Nixon's State of the Union declaration that "one year of Watergate is enough," however, no quick resolution-short of resignation-is likely...
...Rockefeller, by playing soccer and even squeezing out a tune in public on the accordion. So far, however, Pompidou has shown no desire to step down until his term expires in 1976. "My succession is not open," he angrily told his Cabinet late last year. "My health is my affair...
...dinosaur or a debauchee or even a gossip-column item. Perhaps the one who conies closest to being a gay blade is Prince Louis-Ferdinand, 66, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and claimant to the empire of Germany and the kingdom of Prussia. The prince once had a torrid affair with Lili Damita, an ex-wife of Errol Flynn...
...investigation. They speculate that he may be making a subtle effort to rescue the Administration, perhaps by announcing on the eve of an impeachment vote in the House that the President had been right, and that grave matters of national security were, after all, inextricably intertwined with the Watergate affair. Baker maintains that he is simply trying to get to the bottom of the President's repeated assertions that the White House was anxious to limit the Watergate inquiry not to cover up wrongdoing within the Nixon Administration but to prevent probers from compromising the nation's security...
Subtle Motives. Baker learned about the CIA tapes while conducting his own private investigation of the national security aspects of the Watergate affair - everything from the Pentagon papers case, which led to the formation of the plumbers' unit in June 1971, to the Pentagon's spying on the National Security Council, which first came to light last month (TIME...