Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon Government is still under investigation. Until its problems, consisting of blatant financial finagling, the Spiro Agnew love affair, and the Watergate scandal, are resolved, the Nixon Government has not the legitimacy to participate in the selection of a Vice President, or in any other constitutional act devolving on the Executive. Period...
...Nixon Administration's earliest scandals is also turning out to be one of its most persistent embarrassments. The affair centers on the charge, flatly disputed by all officials involved, that the Justice Department in 1971 settled an antitrust case against the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. on relatively favorable terms to the company shortly after ITT had pledged up to $400,000 to support the 1972 Republican National Convention. Last week it was revealed that President Nixon himself had personally and bluntly intervened in the case...
When the story of Nixon's phone call first broke in the New York Times, the newspaper did not reveal its sources. But Cox had been told about the conversations by Kleindienst as his staff probed the whole ITT affair. Cox conceded that he might have been an indirect source of the Times story because he had "carelessly" mentioned the Nixon intervention to two Democratic Senators, Edward Kennedy and Philip Hart, and some of their assistants. He said he felt terrible about this. The White House eagerly pounced on Cox and his staff, calling the action "an inexcusable breach...
...Love Affair. The delay is likely to inspire many members of Congress to a closer examination of whether preferential trade advantages to the Soviets-that is, credits and advanced technology-are in the U.S. interest. "Trade should be seen, and I think now it will be seen, as a straight trade-off," says Morton Halperin, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former National Security Council member. "What can we get for those concessions...
Once the Middle East situation has subsided, it is likely that détente as a whole will also be viewed in a somewhat more cautious and realistic light, at least in Washington. "Most people think of détente as a love affair," observes former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Averell Harriman, 81, who has no use for the word. "It isn't that. It just means that a few things have been settled. The trouble with Nixon is that he blows up his successes too high, and then he has to create a crisis to get back...